In Melbourne 1986, Australia’s most prized artwork is stolen, and a promising young painter is swiftly blamed for the crime. Meanwhile another artist’s works are being sold under false pretenses. As these artists and their partners try to fight the corrupt establishment, they find themselves entangled in the secret, murky world of international art theft and fraud in the aftermath of Australia’s most notorious unsolved heist: the theft of Picasso’s Weeping Woman.
