All the thoughts of a forty-year-old widow are occupied with the fate of her growing children. What is the heart of a still young Englishwoman occupied with? He lacks male affection. “We’ll go to Paris with friends,” says the daughter, “and stay in a hotel that doesn’t allow older people over thirty.” Is it easy for a woman in her prime to hear such words? Is my age really the beginning of the end? - she thinks. One day the children will grow up and leave. And then what? Yielding to the persuasion of her friend, the heroine of the novel goes on vacation to sunny Spain. Readers will find out how this journey, which turned out to be dangerous and dramatic, ended by reading the proposed novel.