The Tempest

Alejandro Ballestros, a young Spanish art historian, arrives in a wintry, misty Venice to study Giorgione's painting "The Tempest", the subject of his thesis and the centre of his academic life.

But on his first day in the city, Ballesteros witnesses a murder which propels him into a dangerous and seductive web connecting the city's rarefied academic circles with a master forger; a web which leads him to witness both theft and an orgy, and to break his heart, before the murder is solved.