Love, passion, artistic collaboration, suspicion, hatred and psychosis were the essential elements that made up French sculptor Camille Claudel's life. In Paris during the 1880's and at the height of her career, Camille produced hundreds of sculptures. Labeled as a genius, her massive output was matched only by the explosion of tension between her and her mentor, the renown sculptor Auguste Rodin. Suspicious, but deeply in love with Rodin for over ten years, her paranoid relationship with him intensified over time. As the years passed, Rodin's rejection of Camille, and a lack of recognition for her work, reduced this 19th century artist into a mentality of schizophrenia, where she emerged from her brilliant past as "nothing more than an anxious shadow hiding in the recesses of her dark studio, asking only for silence and oblivion." Forced by her family to spend thirty years in an insane asylum, Camille lucidly wrote a memoir, which records her views on life in the last years of her confinement: "I hope my memoir will illustrate the heights of passion Rodin and I reached, and unravel the mystery of why they were transformed into vinegar and ashes." As an amazing real-life story, fictionalized in the award-winning film Camille Claudel, the relevance of this subject highlights the dynamic nature of a brilliant artist's life who eventually comes to psychological terms with the unfortunate waste her life also produced.