Louisa Laskaratou is the daughter of a great lawyer of Athens. His sudden death forces her to return from abroad, where she lives and works. An unexpected inheritance causes her to question what she knew about her family's past. Among other things, she "inherits" her father's unfinished investigation into the fate of a painting, traces of which are lost shortly before the execution of her grandmother, Louise Lascaratou, in the spring of 1944.