International journalist Mark and his charming wife, Kira, want to adopt a child. Fate gives them a chance when they find a boy named Vic in an orphanage. Unexpectedly, the boy's real mother, Marie, shows up and presents an unusual condition: they must live together in her luxurious house in the mountains. Mark and Kira agree, only to realize that Marie is playing a complicated game, the true motive of which has always eluded them. Mark begins his own investigation, the thread of which leads to long-forgotten shadows of the past.