In the heart of the night of December 3, 1999, in a luxurious penthouse overlooking the Mediterranean in Monaco, billionaire banker Edmond Safra - founder of Republic National Bank and a man with vast global connections - met a tragic and inexplicable end. Suffering from Parkinson's disease, Safra barricaded himself in a secure bathroom together with his nurse Vivian Torrente, convinced that two masked intruders were attacking his supposedly impenetrable fortress. A fire, sta