When renowned Parisian auctioneer André (Alex Lutz, Becoming Karl Lagerfeld) discovers that a long-lost Egon Schiele painting, stolen by the Nazis, is now hanging in the home of a humble worker in a small town, he travels to verify its authenticity, and troubling wartime history.

Confident in his professional judgment and unflappably composed among his colleagues, André lives by routine. What follows is a high-stakes race through the murky world of art dealing, involving a tangled triangle of characters: André’s deceitful intern, his shrewd ex-wife and art appraiser (Léa Drucker, Late Summer), and the well-meaning worker who suddenly finds himself at the center of a moral quagmire. Initially doubtful that such a work could resurface, André gradually becomes convinced of its authenticity, and this revelation, however, sets off unexpected repercussions.

Pascal Bonitzer (Spellbound), a former Cahiers du Cinéma critic and screenwriter for André Téchiné, Jacques Rivette, Raoul Peck, and others, skillfully exposes the absurdities of the elite art world while blending historical and ethical dilemmas, in this finely observed drama.