Hope Spears, a young American Journalist in Paris, is obsessed by a reclusive poet, though she herself is nearly a hermit. When she cannot find him, she is forced to leave Paris. Her last 24 hours are marked by surprise, intrigue, despair and a final embrace of the banalities of a daily life we cannot predict.

Hope Spears, a young American Journalist in Paris, is obsessed by a reclusive poet, though she herself is nearly a hermit. When she cannot find him, she is forced to leave Paris. Her last 24 hours are marked by surprise, intrigue, despair and a final embrace of the banalities of a daily life we cannot predict.