Novel
Jo Beckett leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied with her life. One afternoon, a man brings his dog into her veterinary practice to be treated, and Jo recognizes him as Eli, a former housemate from her bohemian days more than 20 years ago. When he invites her to lunch at a fancy hotel in Boston, she goes with the intention of sleeping with him. Instead, Eli reveals a secret to Jo that returns her to the darkest moments of her past and threatens to destroy life as she knows it.
Novel
불행하기만 하던 결혼을 끝내고 딸 몰리(Molly: 아시아 비에이라 분)와 함께 단란한 새 삶을 이루어가던 안나(Anna Dunlap: 다이안 키튼 분)는 아일랜드 조각가인 레오(Leo Cutter: 리암 니슨 분)와의 새로운 사랑을 이루게 된다. 그를 만나면서 과거의 어리석었던 첫사랑의 실패를 씻으려 하였지만, 전 남편 브라이언(Brian: 제임스 노튼 분)이 나타나 몰리의 양육권을 요구하게 되면서 안나는 과거의 잘못되었던 열정의 대가를 치러야 된다. 레오와 몰리와의 새로운 행복을 꿈꾸던 안나는 양육권을 잃지 않으려고 법정에 서게 되고, 그녀가 그리던 행복이란 삶의 정체가 심각한 위기에 흔들리는데...
Story
Alexandra McKay is a woman who's been blind for twenty years and is afraid that people will just try to get close to her because of her condition, so she ultimately stays to herself and her trusty guide dog, Emma. When Richard Chapman enters her life, a romance develops and McKay begins to let the outside world in to her private world. The prospect of an operation arises that will restore McKay's eyesight, but the fear of what it will do to her relationship with Chapman and the concern over the fate of her guide dog weigh heavily upon her decision to do the procedure.
