Max Sell is a respectable and powerful self-made businessman. To strengthen his position in high London society, he marries Lady Angela. The family has a son, Kieran, and a daughter, Amber, who are smart, purposeful, and brave. But during the sultry Roman summer, a beautiful Italian stewardess Francesca appears in Max’s life, who also gives birth to Max’s daughter, Paola. Sell is not at all against a family in London and a family in Rome. But Amber and Paola enter into a desperate struggle for the attention and love of their father. Leslie Lokko was born in 1964 in Scotland. Her mother is Scottish and her father is from Ghana, West Africa. She studied in Ghana, England and the USA. L. Lokko is an architect by profession, but her first writing experiments turned out to be very successful, and she devoted herself to literature.