"It is 1526 and the famous painter Hans Holbein comes to England to visit Sir Thomas More. His commission: a portrait of More in the company of his family. Holbein not only gets to know Henry VIII's chancellor well, but also Meg, More's foster daughter. She, the clever young woman with a knowledge of medicine, fascinates the ambitious painter. But John Clement, a man with a dark, mysterious past, also courts Meg's favour. Meg will marry one of the two men and love the other. And only in Holbein's painting will the secret be kept forever... In the midst of the upheavals of the Tudor period, the story unfolds around two of Holbein's most important paintings and the fate of a young woman searching for the truth behind them. "