Born in the US and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution This is a story of identity, loyalty and the devastating power of accusations to destroy innocent people