Reportage photographer Elicia encounters solitary writer Aiden Dean. Photographing him Elicia includes his portrait in her first solo exhibition. Meeting again at the gallery there develops an intense love affair between photographer and subject; both are searching for a future where they can love as equals. But what has her portrait revealed?

Detective Sergeant Antony Mylen is still investigating his one unsolved crime; the apparent suicide of graphic designer Lizzie, a young woman he believes had no reason to end her life, who was found a year ago with cut wrists in her bloodied bath water. Aiden, a man close to the dead woman, is the detective's lead murder suspect. Mylen believes the portrait of the writer and the photographer are a catalyst to prove his suspect's guilt.

As more people from both Aiden's and Elicia's past step into the light, how close are these two people willing to get to each other and the truth?

Elicia is a taut psychological thriller, laced with sarcastic and dark, playful humour that leads each character to question what they know to be truth and what is illusion in love and death.