The period, work, love affairs, life and death of Wenceslau de Moraes, the great Portuguese writer of Asia, born in Lisbon in 1854, who died in Tokushima, Southern Japan, in 1929. "The Island of Love" is taken from the title of the most famous chapter in "Os Lusíadas", the epic poem by Luís Vaz de Camões, great Portuguese poet of the 16th century.