Max Jackson, a New Zealander living and lecturing in Paris, has a complicated arrangement with his estranged French wife, Louise. In love with his younger Sorbonne colleague Sylvie, he finds himself entangled with Helen, a troubled young English student. When a Cezanne painting goes missing from Louise's apartment, the boundaries he has struggled to maintain threaten to collapse.
von: Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Leonid Andreyev, Peter Coates, Michael Goodrick, Sharon Plummer, Richard Williams, Mike Hogan, Belinda Hillman, Trevor O'Hare