A powerful love story with the ingredients of a crime thriller, set from the 1930's to the 1980's in southern England, Italy and the Greek Sporades Islands. It tells the story of a wealthy Englishwoman and a fiercely ambitious but penniless French-Italian man ? set on a collision course. Louis is a womaniser. Connie is insanely jealous.

A dirty trick played on an Italian inmate of a World War Two internment camp has far-reaching consequences for Louis Baroni, opening the door to the Mafia and blighting the rest of his life, despite the fact that he achieves his ambition to become one of...