1917: A baby is abandoned at the steps of Singapore's world-famous Raffles Hotel. A childless English couple finds the crying infant and decides to adopt her. They sail back to England with the child in their arms.
1937: Twenty years have passed. The house of Lim Chin Boon is in turmoil; the Master of the house is dying and has just received a letter from a young lady who could very well be his long-lost granddaughter from his first marriage. Emma West returns to Singapore to look for her family, but finds herself thrown into the midst of intrigue and mystery in the Lim family. There is a death in the family, a murder as it turns out. Whose death? Who has done it? Everyone in the household has a deadly motive. Sit back and be engulfed in a web of conspiracy, deceit, love, money and power struggle. And the truth shall come to light.