The fabled Silk Road has, for centuries, been the scene of opium and heroin traffic and frightening intrigue. Into this age old caldron, a Taiwanese woman, curator at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, searches for the long-lost or stolen portion of Chiang Kai-sheks Peking Museum art. Set in the surreal beauty of the Pamir Mountains of southern Tajikistan, Eva Yus quest sets off a deadly wave of violence as she pursues her search for the missing...