Abandoned by her lover of ten years and devastated by the painful death of her brother, an American writer named Catherine comes to recover on the French Riviera--where she stumbles into an affair with Lucien, a man who looks as if he "stepped out of an unmade film by the dead Truffaut." Through her story of their mysterious, bittersweet affair, Catherine illuminates the inner life of an artist both inspired and doomed by her own desire.

A collection of poems by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Philip Levine.