The only person he ever loved, who could have prevented his rise, lies on the seabed near San Remo: Tom Ripley has transformed into a sovereign criminal who knows how to infuse his misdeeds with the flair of French art de vivre. He lives a carefree life of luxury with his wife Heloise near Paris and also deals in famous paintings—not just out of passion. When an art collector exposes the paintings as forgeries, Ripley begins a vampiric game with other lives to save his beautiful world—and his own neck.