A masterpiece by Canaletto leads a young art historian on the trail of an unsolved mystery. When Jeremy Allyn, a young art historian, is assigned eighteenth-century painter Canaletto’s Vedute by his teacher as the topic for his dissertation, he decides to focus on a secondary feature, Canaletto’s figures. This decision marks the beginning of an adventure of unexpected turns that lead to astonishing discoveries and uncover a crime which had remained buried for centuries.