Peter Finch, an expert in painting and an employee of a famous art gallery, is busy searching for information about the life of the Danish artist Victor Riis, whose creative style experts compare with the works of the famous Vermeer of Delft. The life of an artist is full of unsolvable mysteries. What does it mean, for example, that in all Riis’s paintings there is a certain female figure in the interiors, but since 1905 the interiors in the paintings are empty? And why does the master’s later works persistently repeat the same detail - the image of an orchid? Peter is helped in his difficult search by Freya, a friend and former work colleague, and it is she who falls into the hands of an unexpected gift of fate - the diary of the Danish painter's model...