After a disastrous first marriage which left her with two children to support, young painter Plum is now married to Breeze, a dangerously attractive transatlantic art dealer. When Plum accidentally intercepts and international art fraud syndicate, she follows a dangerous trail of forged paintings from London to New York to Los Angeles to Sydney to Paris. At the same time, Plum is hesitantly seeking personal freedom - the freedom to be herself as well as a wife and mother - a search which many women will recognise.