There's a murky, tenuous balance between reality and fiction - particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune and suicide. A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. He finds himself unsuspectingly drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue, as he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her past and the complex relationship between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome and London, new truths are revealed, and clues uncovered to other crimes and passions, ever darker and more complex.
