A young ambitious claims assesor investigates a multi million dollar marine insurance fraud.

When a ship sinks off the coast of Argentina, Ellen Brachman, a clever and ambitious claims assessor for the Rotterdam marine-insurance company European Hayward, suspects a 'sinker'. In an attempt to prove the 58 million dollar claim on the ship is false, she flies to Argentina and becomes embroiled in a dangerous web of deceit, lies, murder and lost love.—Anonymous