The Art of Lies

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What happens when an ambitious museum employee from Vietnam discovers art crime that affects her family and country?</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Thuy a proud 39-year-old aspiring museum curator in Hanoi Vietnam loses a long-sought-after job but then gets the chance to mount a major visiting exhibit at her museum which could boost her career. The exhibit will showcase paintings returning home to Vietnam. A collector in France has offered to loan Vietnamese artists' paintings that have been outside the country for years. Several paintings are by her famous great-uncle whose reputation has been critical for the family legacy for decades. But right before the exhibit opens she's faced with the possibility that some of the paintings are fake. She must find out if they are why they are and who's behind the scam. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her father insists she tell no one not even the museum's director and curator. She fears that opening with forged paintings could ruin her reputation along with the artists' the museum and the country. She approaches the collector who claims he had no idea and insists she open the exhibit. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Backed into a corner she must find out who's behind the fake pieces in the exhibit before the opening but in the process she learns there are fakes in her museum's permanent collection as well. The more she searches the more she suspects someone inside the museum or even worse her father is involved with the scheme. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Has her family been living a myth? Is her family really one of artistic prestige or is the legacy her father has created just a lie? If this is a myth how deep does the conspiracy run? And if her father is involved does she turn him in which will destroy the family and its legacy or protect the integrity of her museum the artists and the country? </span></p><p></p>