The play is set in 1937 with Bernard Berenson, the renowned Art critic, connoisseur, writer, and collector, taking his ease discussing art and world affairs with his wife, Mary, and with Nicky, his mistress. Meanwhile, unknown to Berenson, in a hotel in Florence, multimillionaire Joseph Duveen, the world´s most pre-eminent art dealer, is preparing to visit him late that night with something rather special…