Divorced with two children, successful young painter Plum marries Breeze, a transatlantic art dealer He markets her with a glittering new image and she is chosen to represent her country at the Venice Biennale, the Olympics of the art world Meanwhile she stumbles on an international art fraud syndicate and, in pursuing a worldwide trail of faked paintings, realises that the forgers are on her trail Plum needs to find her own liberty and personal freedom her life is enhanced by a wild love affair, but how can she escape her enemies and to what will she escape?