Susan Svendsen has a special talent she has a unique ability to make people confide in her & tell her their innermost secrets She has exploited that talent & now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in an Indian casino To make matters worse her husband is on the run from the mafia one of her children has been accused of antiquity smuggling & the other has run off with a monk But Susan gets an offer from a former government official
- an offer to use her power one more time & have all her charges dropped so she can return to Denmark Together with her family she must track down the last surviving members of a secret think tank of young talents founded in the 1970s the so-called Future Committee & find out what was written in the committee's final report But the report is apparently covering up information of great value & some powerful people are determined it is not revealed