Artemisia Talbot leaves her tumultuous life behind in New York when she is commissioned to photograph Chopin's Paris. Matthew Pierce, musicologist and Chopin scholar, is writing the piece to accompany her photographs and takes Artemisia to Warsaw, to obtain the long lost diary of Mary Wodzinska, the former fiancé of Chopin, for a wealthy friend. Little does she know, Artemesia is being followed by an obsessive killer bent on revenge.