When a literary darling dies in a freak accident, her overlooked contemporary steals her newly finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about Chinese laborers during World War I. Publishing it as her own under an ethnically ambiguous pseudonym, she quickly scales the bestseller lists, justifying the theft by convincing herself the story simply deserves to be told. However, as emerging evidence threatens her stolen success, she is forced to discover exactly how far she will go to protect her secret and keep what she thinks she deserves.