Something unexpected occurs when Kristin Louise Duncombe moves to New Orleans to begin her adult life as a psychotherapist: She falls madly in love with a Médecins Sans Frontières doctor, abandons all of her plans, and follows him on a medical mission to East Africa.

"How can you be sick of living in Paris?"

Life unravels when American psychotherapist Kristin Louise Duncombe faces being uprooted again- this time to follow her husband from their secure nest in Paris to bourgeois Lyon.