An old man dies, leaving behind a self-absorbed son who has enjoyed a privileged and sheltered life and a daughter recently recovered from a life lived a little too hard. It is at the funeral, carefully orchestrated by the old man who had grown withdrawn in his later years, that the siblings begin to realise there were layers to their father that they had been unaware of. In sorting out the estate finances it emerges that a large sum of money disappeared in recent years. The only clues are a mysterious painting of a lady in a red ao dai, the traditional female garment of Vietnam and the name...