With her mother dead of the plague and her beloved brother newly married and moved away Cornelia van Rijn finds herself without a friend or confidant save her ... » 

With her mother dead of the plague and her beloved brother newly married and moved away Cornelia van Rijn finds herself without a friend or confidant save her difficult father. Out of favour with Amsterdams elite Rembrandt van Rijn is now teetering on the brink of madness and Cornelia alone must care for him. But she herself is haunted by secrets and scandal and as Cornelia yearns for a way out her vision becomes clouded to the one true happiness she may have. «