George Sigalas, an intelligent art conservator, around 35, specializing in Medieval Era, works for a large London Art Conservation Society.
His studies and experience helped him become an insurance consultant for the many valuable works of art auctioned in London.
In this capacity, he will find the opposite 30-year-old Kate Hathaway, appraiser, and broker of a large Auction House, because of the original estimates of the value of the works of art was to insured.
However, through their explosive contrasts, a sexual attraction arose between them, which sealed a year later with their marriage.
From their marriage, they had a boy, Ean Sigalas, who only concerned him, as he grew older and understood, was his father’s frequent absence for maintenance of works of art in manycountries abroad.
So when George accepted in his London office the visit of Malcolm Corden, a well-known shipping agent in the City, he could not imagine everything that would follow and lift his assurances until then.
Corden’s wife, the 60-year-old Marie d’Anjou, a French woman from an aristocratic family wanted to use a farmhouse in Cluny, which she inherited but faced the refusal of the authorities to grant the relevant building permit because of building materials from the Abbaye de Cluny, which looted and sold as a quarry of building materials after the French Revolution, had incorporated into the farmhouse.
Marie d’Anjou even claimed that when she was 9 years old, in her farmhouse, she unexpectedly walked, while suffering from poliomyelitis, when their gardener took her to the cellar and prayed in front of a lintel which had a strange zone-shaped engraving.
Malcolm Corden, therefore, asked George to go to Cluny, to use any information that existed and to examine the building materials incorporated in the farmhouse, lest one of the many relics lost during the destruction of the Monastery in the French Revolution hidden, to give permission to rebuild the farmhouse.
George will accept the challenge, face suspicion of the French authorities, feel the peculiarity of the place, until he receives a phone call from Kate, that Ean is not well and should be hospitalized.
George and Kate will be hard-tested by little Ean’s disease, who diagnosed with adrenal cancer and went through the tough test of chemotherapy.
George, however, must return to France to complete his research in Cluny and face the costs of his son’s hospitalization.
Examination of Abbaye de Cluny’s building materials, which embedded in the farmhouse, is laborious for George, often interrupted by images of little Ean suffering from chemotherapy. At the end of the fourth day of the autopsy, George falls into a deep sleep in the farmhouse’s cellar. The images emerging from his unconscious are terrifying. Hagia Sophia, in Constantinople, looted by Crusaders.
One of them with his heavy sword breaks a glass display case and takes a gold-plated minor case.
Then making space, among looters, with his hand the minor case comes out of the Temple and gets lost in the smoke that drowns Constantinople.
The same Crusader kneels before the Abbaye de Cluny Abbot gives him the gold-plated holster and the Abbot reads him a wish.
The Abbot opens the case.
Inside the case, there is a minor piece of fabric, while it illustrates the case inside with the icon of the Virgin Mary offering her Holly Belt as she ascends to Heaven.
The next morning, George feels he’s close to what he’s looking for.
Lintel in the cellar, with the like belt carving must hide what it’s looking for.
Workers subdue the door and remove the lintel.
George’s mental intensity is great when he examines the lintel.
The lintel looks solid... But it’s not.
The chisel that George holds sinks into the plaster of his small surface and George grabs into his hands the small gold-plated case.
The tears from George’s eyes begin to run as a tiny piece of red-colored fabric revealed, while the images of little Ean's suffering dazzles his vision.
And while a tear from George’s eyes falls on the sheath, a sense of coolness fills the space.
The next day George hands the case to Marie d’Anjou, who in vain tries to convince him that the miracle of her treatment was this little piece of red cloth, which came as a loot from the East and must have belonged to the Holy Belt of the Virgin Mary!
George returns to London and rushes to see his son at the hospital, where he is being treated.
On the floor, there are voices of children playing.
George opens the door further and distinguishes between them Ean, who as soon as he sees him with incredible momentum falls into his arms.
George, with Ean in his arms, bursts into a mute, while Kate, who enters the chamber, hugs father and son, whispering to George:
- Believe it, George, we got our lives back!
Below are images of Ean playing in London parks, clutching images of little Marie d’Anjou pulling out the ironsholding her legs and with slight steps falling into her mother’s arms.
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