Set in the Arabian Peninsula, 1901. Omar, an only son, is torn between loyalty to his father’s bandit gang and a better future for his family, as they target a desperate village in search of oil rumored to be underneath its ground.

In the mid-1990s, in Quebec, France, and Switzerland, an immersion into the bloody drift of the Order of the Solar Temple through the high-risk investigation conducted jointly by a French infiltrator, Jean-Marc Larrieux, and a Quebecois criminologist, Vanessa Villeneuve.

Despite being an ultra-orthodox, unmarried young woman, Michal, the protagonist, has no intention of being passed from her father’s control to her husband’s authority. She dreams of becoming a successful adman at the company run by her father.

After discovering her husband’s betrayal, Rolanda seeks revenge, but a confession to Dr Anderson sparks an investigation into her past, revealing intertwined timelines and deep-seated emotional traumas.