Stella, a scientist with a teenage son, is doing her best to keep her sanity after the death of her husband. Adventure is the last thing she expects, but it comes to her uninvited in the form of John, a respectable British businessman freshly arrived in Munich, seeking to start a new life. But John's gentlemanly manners disguise a long repressed dark side. As his true character is slowly uncovered, Stella is unwittingly sucked into his High- Stakes world and lands in the middle of a perfect storm. This is a story of new beginnings just when you thought endings were all you could expect from life. This is a tale of love found through disillusionment, and of redefining what's normal.