When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigratesto the States under myterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, Nera and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society. Their story is told by their neighbour, René, and aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. René chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashin, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamoprhosis. The arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder. In a new world order of alternative truths, here is the ultimate novel about idenitity, veracity, terror and lies.