When Silvano Niccolo the driven charismatic leader of a Florentine political movement collapses at a rally his young party immediately comes under threat. & when it emerges that his long time partner Flavia has disappeared leaving behind not only a devastated husband but their newborn son the political becomes dangerously personal
- & Sandro Cellini is drafted in to investigate. The trail leads to a tired sea-side town & a modest hotel where Flavia chose to end her life. But Cellini isn't satisfied
- why would one so young & with so much to live for walk away from all she loves? As he digs into Flavia's secret world however Sandro uncovers the hidden life of a woman consumed with private passions & a deadly dark obsession. & as the private & public realms intersect he cannot forget that life in modern Italy has a perilous edge
- fuelled as much by rage as desire.