On their private island, the Arcangelo family defy the world: living in a decaying palazzo, making glass in a terrifying, archaic furnace, watching their absurd exhibition hall sink into disrepair. But when a fatal fire explodes in their shop, the world introdes on their crumbling corner of a Venice tourists never see. With two consumed by the foundry fire, both mystery and opportunity have been bared to the bone. On special assignment from Rome, Detective Nic Costa knows that the deaths were not accidental. And while everyone wants this Roman cops to give up and go home, they can’t - because a matter of desire, death, and lies has just turned murderously on him...