In 1958 Adam Strickland arrives in Tuscanny and is enchanted by the Renaissance garden at the Docci family home. But post-War Italy is still a strange and even dangerous place and the Docci's have some dark skeletons hidden away in their past. Before his visit is over Adam will uncover two stories of love, revenge and murder, that are separated by 400 years. Is another tragedy about to be added to the villa's cursed history?