Dotty, a young Englishwoman, travels to Switzerland in 1967 to escape a failing relationship. There she meets Patrick, a charming but unpredictable and unprincipled specialist in Egyptian and Etruscan antiquities. He is planning to earn a very large pay-off by undervaluing an Italian client's remarkable collection, thus enabling his associates to buy it at a price far below the market value. The story follows the pair around Switzerland and Italy,...