When award-winning writer Elliana Moretti is hired by billionaire philanthropist Aldo Costanzato write his biography, she travels to his secluded mansion outside Venice to interview him.Over the course of six weeks of intensive one-on-one collaborations, an attraction between them emerges, and one night, that attraction develops into a full-blown fling, erotic and intense. The night leaves Elli feeling as if she has been unprofessional andshe tells Aldo that while she enjoyed the night, it can never happen again.Aldo accepts this with seeming good grace, but one night, he asks her to escort himto a society party, where she is stunned to meet an old friend, Indio Navaro-her high school crush and noted bad boy billionaire.Indio and Aldo seem acquainted, if a little reserved with each other, and Elli wonders what the story is between them.Aldo is more than happy to trash Indio to Elli later that night, telling her that Indio was responsible for breaking up one ofAldo's relationships with a girl who later ended up murdered.