Sometimes a man mistakes his unhealthy obsession for passion. This is the case with Franklin Ogden, the eldest son of a wealthy family and Grant Foreman's cousin. 
Franklin's family reaches out to Grant with a plea for help in finding a lost work of art. A painting of a young woman whose beauty has driven Franklin nearly mad with lust. Grant must set off on an unusual expedition to find something thought to have been destroyed by the sea that swallowed the ship it last traveled on. But the real question lies in whether, for the good of Franklin, the painting should remain lost to history....