As Claudia's intense affair with Jack deepens, it awakens darker desires in her than she ever suspected, and the curiosity to pursue them, even during her lengthy absences from him. Meanwhile, after remodelling a management system at her company into a highly regarded business solution, two major corporations wish to adopt her thinking, offering the opportunity to establish her own independent consultancy business. She is torn between these demands and fulfilling her role as a committed and now-single mum. But even while exploring her own new sexual boundaries, and the challenges posed to her commitment to openness, she has to deal with evidence that Jack appears to have neither inhibitions nor honesty.