A crime must have been committed in the artist’s house on Hermosa Beach, California. There must, there could have been. The wife could have done it. This doubt haunts the philosophy professor Miljan Toska, the twin brother of the man found dead in the beach house. Arriving in Los Angeles for the reading of his brother’s testament, Toska revisits the house where the alleged crime occurred and, where years ago he fell for Tesa, his brother’s wife, now widow and suspect. The scramble for the truth sends the living on a backward journey that must traverse their pasts as migrants from a little speck of a land named Albania to the turbid “new world” of the United States.