In the time between two World Wars, a man can fall in love...even a man like Yevgeny the Dwarf. While the world finds itself on the brink of The Great War, Yevgeny is commissioned to paint a portrait of Count Milan Novak's mistress, Anna Davadova. When she discovers Novak's greatest secret, Yevgeny finds himself trapped in a world he doesn't understand, but one he's willing to sell his soul for, in order to protect the woman he loves from the man who once tried to destroy her. As Novak reappears in his life like a spectre from the past, Yevgeny finds himself being used as a pawn in a hunt for the Resistance leader known by the code name Renaissance. 11