Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg.
But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorste.
Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs.
He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France.
Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg