The plot follows Eileen Brandow, a destitute widow of a recently deceased NYC banker, who accepts a life-saving assignment from Edgar, an old editor friend. She will travel to France–the home of her childhood–to write about goat cheese for his left-leaning gourmet magazine, The People’s Palate. Arriving at a farm in the south of France, she discovers her contact has been murdered. Within minutes Eileen proceeds to bumble her way through a fast-paced tale of mayhem and intrigure, where she will be cast as both suspect and victim, while attempting to unravel a crime rooted in the past, with tentacles that reach back to the Second World War and Algeria’s fight for independence from France.