When Harriet Taylor learns her mother once lived in Italy, a secret kept for thirty years, she accepts the challenge to determine if the remains known only has the Positano Skeleton belong to her mother's long lost friend. Yet how can she probe old secrets when she doesn't speak the language and no one wants to talk to a foreigner about the skeleton or the past? Then a homeless man hands her a photograph and she must decide how much she will risk to discover the truth. Because a mother's silence can be deadly.