Between the lines of official history lies the warmth of an age.
Set in Beijing at the turn of the twentieth century, the story begins with a lost masterpiece of court painting, "Shadowless Figure," and unveils a long-buried world of calligraphy and painting. This is not a grand tale of emperors and generals, but the story of scholars, opera performers, assassins, collectors, eunuchs, and revolutionaries struggling and making choices in the cracks of history.
