Rouz schitaet sebya schastlivoy zhenschinoy. Vot uzhe dvadtsat pyat let ona zamuzhem za prekrasnym muzhchinoy Natanom, u nih dvoe vzroslyh detey. Ona vedet kolonku o literature v prestizhnoy londonskoy gazete. O chem esche mozhno mechtat? Odnazhdy, kak grom sredi yasnogo neba, Rouz uznaet, chto Natan nashel novuyu lyubov. Uzhasnee vsego to, chto ego vozlyublennoy okazalas Minti, ee pomoschnitsa. I esli eto esche mozhno kak-to perezhit, to uvolnenie s lyubimoy raboty i naznachenie Minti na ee dolzhnost, polnostyu razrushaet privychnyy mir Rouz. Chto zh, nad bitoy posudoy ne plachut, a nachinayut vse s chistogo lista! Tak reshaet Rouz i delaet pervyy shag v novuyu zhizn.
