Synopsis

Still Life: Vase with Oleanders is a painting by Vincent van Gogh, believed to have been confiscated by the Nazis during the Second World War.  Today, almost seventy years later, world-renowned digital photographer, Maggie Thornhill is searching for the missing work of art.  Her lifelong friend, Ingrid, has asked her to do the impossible – authenticate the painting from a photograph.

The photograph in question was passed down to Ingrid by her grandfather, Klaus Rettke a key member of the German Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, the Nazi organization appointed to confiscate are from the Jews.  Obscure reference in Klaus Rettke’s diary convinces Maggie that Rettke stole the painting from the Nazis.  Now she must use science to verify that the painting in the photo is genuine, something that has never been done before

From the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. to the Musee dueJeu de Paume in Paris, Maggie searches for answers.  Finally, she confronts the possibility that there is not one painting, but the original and several forgeries.  With Tens of millions of dollars at stake and a killer at large, she is determined to find the authentic Van Gogh.  To do so, Maggie must stay alive… something that’s proving difficult to do.