The Italian Alps,1944. The Resistance is fighting a bitter battle
against German forces on the treacherous mountains of the Valtellina.
Eighteen-year-old Sandro Bellini falls in love with the wife of his
Commander. No good can come of it. London,1999. Michael Keats is
mourning the death of his wife, killed in a hit and run accident in
Northern Italy. His discovery that she had been having an affair
devastates him and he sets out to find the identity of her lover. That
journey leads him to the villages of the Valtellina, where he becomes
embroiled in a crime of treachery and revenge. The brutal repercussions
of the war are still reverberating, and as Michael uncovers the truth of
his wife's affair, he reveals five decades of duplicity and deception.