The young geologist Stephen Swan will resign because of a labor dispute with his employer in the Texas oil industry in England and his mother decided to go see. There he is confronted with a lodge, to his astonishment that his uncle Eldritch appears to be who he did not know better than that during Hitler's blitzkrieg was killed. Stephen discovers that his uncle all the time in an Irish prison has been. When he examines how and why his uncle gevangenzat, he encounters a conspiracy around fake Picasso `s and the legacy of their family robbed of an Antwerp diamond dealer ....