Alice, a talented London perfumer, has a very unpleasant neighbor—an artist named Ethan Doldry. He wants, by any means, to get her apartment: it has very convenient lighting—a glass ceiling, perfect for a painter’s studio. One day Doldry finds out that a fairground fortune-teller predicted that Alice would meet the man of her life. It is supposed to happen in Turkey, and there Alice will also be destined to uncover the secret of her past. And Doldry makes his neighbor an unexpected offer: he is willing to pay for her trip to Istanbul and even accompany her. Alice is perplexed: why would the neighbor want to help her? Maybe he has simply found a clever way to get rid of her once and for all? Or maybe…