Meet Claire: fifty-two, desperate to do something new and get a fresh start. Enter the chance to go to Rome: Home to a struggling convent facing a precipitous end, the city beckons Claire, who's long had a complicated relationship with religion, including a "missed connection" with convent life in her teens. Once in Rome, she finds a group of funny, fearless nuns in a gorgeous villa, beautiful runs throughout a color-saturated city, and a chance to reflect. It all leads her to an unexpected question-should she join the convent?-and an answer that startles her as much as it does those closest to her. Just as she is about to decide what's next, Claire's college sweetheart, the devastatingly handsome Marcus, turns up making things all the more complicated. Must she choose between faith and love? Or is it possible to have both?