Lady Evelyn Herbert, the beautiful and popular daughter of Lord Carnarvon, was above all to marry conveniently. But she wanted something else. She left the world of proms and marriages of convenience and headed to the Egyptian desert with her father, hoping to become an archaeologist and work alongside Howard Carter. That dream came true for her.

Egypt gave her one love and robbed her of another. The first was her future husband, the second her beloved father. In 1922, she experienced, in her own words, "the most brilliant moment of her life" there, when she was the first to enter the newly discovered tomb of Tutankhamun. However, her life took a darker turn from that moment on. The series of tragedies around her that followed did not break her, but gave rise to the myth of the pharaoh's curse, which accompanied her in various forms throughout her life.

After a stroke in 1972, aged Eve remembers the events of her youth. An Egyptian archaeologist searching for the fate of artifacts from Tutankhamun's tomb helps her in this. But what if her questions aren't as innocent as they seem? Can a loving husband protect Eve to the end?