Sophie Cass, an ambitious journalist, may have finally found her big break. Convinced a celebrated painter in the Hamptoms is hiding a dark secret, she sets off to unravel the truth about his past. Her research takes her back to 1940, as an international group of artists and intellectuals gather at the House of Dreams, a beautiful villa outside Marseilles where American journalist Varian Fry and his remarkable team are working to help them escape France. Despite the increible danger they all face, the House of Dreams is a place of true camaraderie and creativity- and the setting of a love affair that changed the course of the painter's life forever. But as Sophie digs further into his past, she begins to wonder whether some secrets are better left untouched