When Clarisse and her newfound friend Marcia sign on for a highly compensated pharmaceutical trial, they find themselves heading from America back to the location of their historical roots in the south of France. Both young women are grieving over the loss of their immediate families. Adding to her woes, Clarisse has become unemployed while her only weeks-old marriage is in a spiral of decline. After arrival at the Ferme de Tayac in France, Clarisse and Marcia pursue contact with an elderly French priest. He not only provides records and much detailed ancestry information about the history of their related family but also holds the keys to why the pharmaceutical corporation brought the women to France at such an extreme expense. An evil web grows tighter and the plot thickens until the women's chances of returning to America become slim or none unless they are willing to fight for their freedom, along with the elderly priest's daughter and her loosely formed Band of Brothers.