A contemporary thriller with a touch of romance set in the Channel Islands and the UK. The story revolves around an Old Master painting recovered from an ancient shipwreck. The painting is subsequently stolen with violence and disappears but resurfaces in two parts - it had been cut in half with the two different parts going in separate directions in the hands of criminals. After various conflicts and unexpected events in a shoot-out in the Peak district the two parts are again united but at what cost...........?