Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged teacher and Lolita, the daughter of his landlady, is a disturbingly beautiful and provocative twelve-year-old. With these elements was built the story of the most famous love obsession of the twentieth century, an enthralling romance of love that shakes all consciences in uncovering the powerful and "perverse" attraction that can be called the "nymphatic". This unbridled itinerary through the roads of madness and death, which plunges human passions to the extreme, is also a devastating portrait of the United States of the mid-fifties, with its suburban horrors and triumphant subculture.