Known as 'The Ice Queen', Anneliese Zander de St Phalle is one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers. Yet she's a mystery: a reclusive, disciplined perfectionist who rarely grants interviews.

Anneliese never talks about her past, not even to her only daughter Callan. It's a place to which she'll never return. Or so she thinks – until, at an exclusive New Year's party at her glamorous island hideaway, a woman appears whom Anneliese has done her very best to forget.

On the cusp of Anneliese's retirement, at the height of her international success, the woman brings a story that she demands be told. And to Anneliese's horror, she discovers that the past cannot be left behind ...