Alizee Benoit an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration WPA vanishes in New York City in 1940 amid personal and political turmoil. No one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close knit group of friends including Mark Rothko Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. And some seventy years later not her great niece Danielle Abrams who while working at an auctio