Beautiful, vivacious Kate Swallow (
Carole Bouquet) is a floor model at a posh London department store by day, and the wife of author Alec Bolton (
Jonathan Pryce) at night. Her idyllic existence is thrown into turmoil when she finishes a novel and is courted, both professionally and romantically, by Alec's new publisher, crass Vanni Corso (
Christopher Walken). When her husband objects to her writing career, and her publisher objects to her marriage, Kate is forced to make a decision between marriage, romance and the career she has always dreamed of.