Death suddenly bursts into the respectable life of Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler. Her father, who survived the horrors of World War II and the bloody everyday life of Stalinism, dies under mysterious circumstances. As an inheritance, the father gives his daughter the key to solving the mystery of the Amber Room, a world masterpiece taken by the Nazis from Russia and hidden on the eve of the defeat of Germany. Rachel does not yet know that by starting her search, she is thereby entering the path of a powerful secret organization that is hunting for missing treasures and is ready to do anything to achieve its goal.