It is Renaissance Florence: Alessandra, the daughter of the powerful Lorenzo Medici, sits for her portrait - a wedding gift for the man her father is forcing her to marry.

It is Florence, in 2005: Maria is on holiday visiting relatives when her father discovers an old painting.

A portrait of a girl dressed in white. And the more he looks at it the more obsessed he becomes...From the moment Maria's father buys the mysterious painting, her family suffers a catalogue of disasters.

Maria is convinced the painting is cursed - but how does she put a stop to it?