Worn out from years of caring, Marcia Trilling somehow finds the resolve to apply for a teaching role in a beautiful villa on the shores of Lake Garda. It's everything she ever dreamt of, but all is not as it seems. Why do strange things keep happening? Why does her employer, Marco Conti, look so tired and nervous and who are these people chasing him? From his dacha outside Moscow, Chief of General Staff Sergey Verensky expects results, and Marco Conti is standing in his way. The vultures are circling and only Marcia can stop them. Marcia finds herself drawn ever closer to the family, but when she is approached to spy on the family, she has a difficult choice to make: to become a spy or abandon them to their fate.