Private Investigator Makana has a new client, the powerful art dealer Aram Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn't want to be found. Soon Makana finds himself caught between dangerous enemies on a trail that leads him into the darkness of war and threatens to send the new life he has built for himself up in flames.