Aaron Jenks left his surgical practice in Los Angeles along with his wife and two daughters after a nasty divorce to retire to Costa Rica. A chance encounter in a posh Escazu café leads Aaron to the beautiful Nicole L'Heureaux, wife of the head of an old and prominent family whose history parallels the darkest aspects of the history of the Central American nation. Nicole is bored, ambitious and ruthless, unhappy in her marriage and contemptuous of her husband and his family. .Aaron's passion for Nicole leads him to radically change his life and the lives of his daughter and girlfriend in unexpected ways. For Aaron his pursuit of Nicole leads down a dark and desperate path. Costa Rica is a place of great natural beauty but where human passion and greed are involved there is another side to paradise.