Professor Fiona Reid feels it is now too late for the life she would have wished. "I want so much more than this dusty book jacket I've allowed myself to become." She accepts the offer to take a group to Italy as their courier. Kale McBride a successful outgoing writer of lesbian fiction is a member of the group. "I do miss being part of a couple...the relationship, but it's hard as you get older to meet women who interest you intellectually and sexually. Or find women interested in you " Will Fiona find the courage to admit her sexuality?