Alva cannot remember anything, not even the death of her baby in childbirth, and is horrified that her estranged husband Conte Luca Mazareeze should accuse her of trying to commit suicide. She cannot believe herself capable of such an act. Little by little, memories trip into her mind and it is only when she becomes the target of a murderer that she realises she knows something that someone is afraid of her remembering. When she finally recalls what happened in the past she knows that life for her will never be the same again.