To outsiders, David and Virginia Hall are a golden couple, living expensively with exquisite taste and glamorous friends. But in reality they are perfectly imperfect - living a lie of false love. When Isabel is born, David pours all his love into her; she looks set to inherit not only wealth and comfort, but her parents' talents as well. Then tragedy strikes: Isabel's life is shattered and her future threatened, and she finds herself the reluctant inheritor of her parents' complex and bitter past. As she slowly unravels the truth and seeks the love so cruelly denied her, her ambitions and dreams are foiled time and time again, and she is drawn inexorably in her parents' footsteps...