Californian art buyer Cassi Mason and New York gallery art buyer Jared Landine go head-to-head in a bidding war for a very expensive Indian Buddha from the Kushan period. Each is determined to win, but others also want the Buddha -- at any cost. Soon Cassi and Jared are forced to develop a tentative friendship that deepens into romance as they struggle to survive long enough to obtain the priceless art antiquity.