When two men love the same woman, their friendship is blown apart. When it happens for a second time, can anyone survive the blast? Lennon Thomas is a gifted student of Literature, who travels to Paris in order to follow the footsteps of his literary idols. While studying at the Sorbonne, he meets Sebastian, a man who becomes his closest friend and Claudine, a talented young artist with whom he falls in love. Twenty years on, now Professor of English at Edinburgh University and married to Claudine, Len appears to have it all. Claudine's tragic death, however, forces Len to face some unwelcome truths. As Claudine's secrets are revealed, will the shadows of the past continue to connect Len and Sebastian or do they, in fact, threaten to destroy them?