A woman from Montreal at a crossroads in her life travels to Sweden to attend a prestigious conference in linguistics. She
secretly hopes for more than mere professional development. Divorced, her three children almost grown up, she has developped emotionally and spiritually. She longs to meet "the right man" and
start a new chapter.
Here on the other side of the Atlantic she will soon find more than what she hoped for: a handsome, accomplished stranger, a
relationship of tenderness and pinnacles of sexual and emotional fulfillment.
But as the affair unfolds, seemingly insurmountable problems present themselves.
Yet the conflicts and temporary setbacks of the forbidden romance do more than chronicle a woman's personal development and the joy of
true intimacy. They also chronicle an era, the 1960s and 1970s, a time of unconventional choices, when families took on new forms and women sought and demanded more rights, including
relationships with emotional and sexual fulfillment.
