The heroine of the novel, Tracy, accidentally overheard a conversation between her passionately beloved husband, a wealthy businessman, and a friend, in which he openly expressed his cynicism about marriage in general and his marriage in particular. Shocked Tracy, knowing that Ben was her husband’s name - will never let her go, and being unable to resist him, or rather her love for him, runs away from home. Almost a year has passed. Tracy believes that she is now free of her feelings for Ben. And then suddenly she meets a man who is exactly like her husband...