简要：Francesco Sabrini, the heir of Florence's famous and very wealthy jeweler family, received a mysterious death gift on the back of a Renaissance painting collected in their private attic. The Rome auction house of Fabio Milus provided a beautiful fake, but Susanna Noer, a German born art expert, kept it in Florence, the artist's hometown, for investigation, in order to consult her art history mentor Professor Andreas von Vicenfels. There, she lived with her friend Elizabeth Lance, where she introduced Francesco and his family. In their research, modern crimes related to the rumored cannibalism of the Renaissance were discovered, with initially mysterious Francesco and Susanna becoming lovers
