Graham and Annie have been married for thirty years A loving successful marriage is of course not without its complications Graham is a bookseller and a large man in every sense—gregarious a lover of life the convivial host of frequent lively parties Annie is more reserved and introspective preferring to live her life through the camera’s lens as a photographer After a dry spell of six years she is about to have her first gallery show and is anxious that her best years professionally may be behind her Sarah the adult child of Annie and Graham lives in San Francisco and Lucas Graham’s son with his first wife Frieda works in New York Though Frieda is an integral part of this far-flung loving American family Annie believes that she is Graham’s last and greatest love When Graham suddenly dies Annie discovers his infidelity an impulsive affair he was trying to end and spirals into darkness as she wonders if she truly knew the man who loved her.