In its shadows, the City of Light holds deadly secrets.

In a Hitchcockian tale of mystery, suspense and romance, Sam Hough, a retired diplomat, makes a seemingly innocent promise to find the son of a dying friend, a five-year-old boy whose existence the friend has only recently discovered.

Sam’s search leads him into the crooked streets of Paris’s seamiest neighborhoods where he is drawn ever deeper into a maze of treachery, mystery and violence.

Meanwhile, a different kind of search brings Sam to one of the city’s most elegant quarters and the rekindling of a long-lost romance.