One of those daydreamy nightmares in which Alexa comes to the small island off Malta where her father had died -- and left a house with -- of all things he could not afford -- a Modigliani, and where she meets Michael again who had thrown her over the year before as well as a more attentive and reliable replacement. The real question is who is Zoe Cass--a pseudonym--she tells a better story on a par with say Anne Maybury if you don't bother to clock the pulsebeats of her telltale heart.