Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around the grand cafes and opera houses of 1900s Vienna.

The story of two women born centuries apart. Alais lives in France in the year 1209 and is handed a mysterious book said to hold secrets to the Holy Grail, while on an archaeological dig eight centuries later, Alice finds a link to the past.