Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Millers major life work. Exploring one mans desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume of Henry Millers scandalous semi-autobiographical trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion. It finds him in the midst of his stormy marriage to the volatile, duplicitous Mona, and joyfully quitting his dreary job for a hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn, as he takes his first steps towards becoming a writer.