Set in the last half of the 19th C this is a fictionalised biography of the love story between a writer with an eccentric way of life and an older married woman. Fanny Osbourne, a woman of confused determination, brave in her outlook but uncertain of her needs, is married with three children and living in California. She tires of her husband's philandering and leaves, taking the children to Paris so her daughter can study art. After months of difficulties...