From her Madison Avenue office Camilla Jameson Porter seems to work in perfect symbiosis with the celebrities who garland her magazine, Living de Luxe. Her favourite photographer is on another shoot in the South of France when he stumbles on an original Cezanne being loaded into a local plumber's van. This leads him on a mission from New York to Cap Ferrat, Paris and Aix both following and followed by hoaxer, dealer, editor and assassin, all on the hilarious trail of the elusive Cezanne.