Alice, a talented London perfumer, has an extremely unpleasant artist neighbor, Egan Daldry. He wants to get her apartment by hook or by crook: it has very good lighting, ideal for a painter’s studio. One day Daldry learns that a fair fortune teller has prophesied that Alice will meet the man of her life. This should happen in Turkey, where Alice is destined to penetrate the secret of her past. And Daldry makes an unexpected offer to his neighbor: he is ready to pay for her trip to Istanbul and even keep her company. Alice is perplexed: why did the neighbor need to help her, maybe he just found a clever way to get rid of her once and for all?