 Ivy, an elegant, but troubled gallery owner, inherits a cache of ancient African funerary posts from her father. They carry a terrible secret known only to herself which is slowly destroying her. The discovery of the stolen art is the key to unlocking Ivy s neatly packaged life and the memory of her father s murderous past. While Ivy battles to forget her disturbing history, her colleagues from the art world learn that the poles are worth millions, and a rising firestorm of greed and lust rages as everyone chases the money they will bring. Ivy s reputation, her career, her sanity, depends on concealing the secret that her father was a war criminal. The poles have the blood of innocents on them. How could the daughter possess them and yet be free of stain?