When a medical procedure goes wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser knows that he needs to protect his reputation. Looking back to the previous summer, Schlosser recounts how he took his wife and their two beautiful teenage daughters to spend a week at Meier's Mediterranean home. Joined not only by Meier and his wife as well as another couple, they settle in for days of sunshine. In this novel by the author of The Dinner, however, a violent incident disrupts the idyll, and suddenly no one can be trusted.