Ovid was banished by the Emperor Augustus and died in exile ten years late. No one known why he was banished. Years after Ovid's death Marcus Corvinus, grandson of the poet's patron, tries to arrange the return of his ashes to Rome for burial. But...
In Paris on business, art historian Jonathan Argyll agrees to deliver a minor eighteenth-century painting to a client in Rome. A simple enough task which goes murderously wrong. The client is tortured and shot, and another prospective buyer also...