SYNOPSIS:

Cornelius Vandekorputt is the luckiest person in the world. Or maybe not. An old housemaid gently wakes him up and softly washes his back every morning while an old butler serves a exquisite breakfasts. His only concern is to discover the genesis of Still Life. And his cranky petulant mother. He can spend his incredibly vast fortune in precious artifacts to follow a clue for his quest, but he cannot escapes his mother pressing to find a virtuous wife and a lucrative business; he came from an old family of tycoons it is time to halt those frivolous recreations. When the butler smashes himself, the mother and the housemaid crashing a vintage Rolls-Royce in the highway, Cornelius inherits a financial empire but he doesn’t know how to buy groceries. Martin, his source of magnificent art objects, persuades him to hire a housekeeper. The director of his bank finds the right person. Cornelius opens the door of his mansion to Ingrid, a stocky German immigrant. The deal includes in the package Sunshine, the gorgeous, sensual, teenager daughter. Things start to deteriorate; Cornelius falls in the trap and Ingrid snaps a photo of him in bed with Sunshine. Blackmailed, he agreed to a reparative wedding. The spouse is not Sunshine but Ingrid. The boorish woman gains ground daily; Cornelius takes refuge in his studio to find the origin of Still Life. A paper cut out in the mail reveals Ingrid as a Nazi who murders her husbands. Cornelius slips away from the house and moves into a luxurious hotel. He found the missing link to discover the genesis of Still Life in an ancient, precious book that Martin sold to him. Yet he has to leave the hotel; the bank director, plotting with Ingrid, freezes his money and Cornelius spends the night in Central Park. Cornelius displays his enthusiasm and the inestimable book to a hobo. The morning after there is no hobo and no book. A gloomy Cornelius meets Sunshine who walks him out of the park. At Martin’s shop, he refreshes himself, but when the bank’s director and Ingrid pop up inexplicably, Cornelius understands he must fight for his life. Eventually Sunshine, a Mossad agent, unfolds the Nazi plot. The confrontation leads to the arrest of Martin, the conspiracy’s mastermind. The attraction between Cornelius and Sunshine is fatal; the art professor and the Nazi hunter find romance, at the end.