A New York heiress, survivor of the Nazi purges of Paris, commissions an art historian to find a looted painting of her mother by Matisse.

When the Nazis arrest Nicole Cassin's parents and seize their art gallery in Paris in 1941, Nicole vows revenge and joins the Resistance.

Years later, living in New York, she is haunted by her lost past and hires an art historian to find her family's stolen paintings, among which is a portrait of her mother by Matisse.

The whereabouts of the stolen art prove elusive but the search for them leads to another more unexpected discovery.

A moving story of courage, determination and defiance.