[4] Based on a novel by Jean-Christophe Grangé the film depicts an inter-continental, mystical conspiracy unfolding following the adoption of a boy from Mongolia.

Bellucci plays Diane Siprien, a translator, who adopts a Mongolian child name Liu-San with the help of her friend Sybille.

Years later, a bruise appears on the boy's chest, and the two women suffer nightmares.

As Diane tries to place the language, mysterious murders began occurring in her orbit.

"[5] Screen Daily similarly found an American parallel, the Da Vinci Code, and called the film "overwrought".