Michel Bussi

In 1980 an airliner crashes in the French Alps, the only survivor is a small baby girl but there were two baby girls on the plane. Both families claim the child as theirs and the courts award custody to one set of grandparents. On her 18th birthday, the private investigator hired by one family gives her his case notes and as she sets out to find the truth, she uncovers eighteen years of lies and deceptions.

Jérôme Morval, a man whose passion for art is matched only by his passion for women, has been found dead in the stream that runs through the gardens of the former home of the artist Claude Monet. Entangled in the mystery are three women, but what is the connection to the rumoured painting of Black Water Lilies?