The Goldfinches

(all 3 episodes of the Alchemist series together)

Somewhere in Prague, it is said that since the time of Charles IV. hidden recipe for lapis philosophorum, the philosopher's stone. All the alchemists are searching for him, including the learned Englishman John Dee's friend Edward Kelley, the mysterious Count Bragadino, the imperial antiquary James de Strada and the secret agent of the Society of Jesus. Rudolfinum Bohemia becomes the scene of dramatic events in which life is all too often at stake. Is this alchemical recipe a legend or a fact? Who among those who seek it with sometimes not exactly laudable intentions will eventually seize it?