"Chris, la narratrice, belle et brillante avocate d'une quarantaine d'années, vient d'être arrêtée pour un acte irrévocable commis sur la personne d'un jeune homme de 25 ans qu'elle a rencontré lors d'un réveillon. Afin d'y voir plus clair, son avocate lui suggère d'écrire son histoire. Le récit, entrecoupé de témoignages, de dépositions et d'articles de presse, décrit leur relation."
"Een advocate staat terecht omdat ze tien maanden eerder een jongeman, door wie ze seksueel geobsedeerd was, bij haar thuis ernstig heeft verwond."
"A woman blinds her lover during a fight. Christine Chandler, a Boston lawyer, meets Scott DeSalvo, a younger man, at a party. She takes him to bed, a relationship develops, but he has a girlfriend who makes phone calls from Korea. Christine is jealous, the affair becomes violent, the man is blinded and a trial must decide whose fault it really was."@en
"A woman blinds her lover during a fight. Christine Chandler, a Boston lawyer, meets Scott DeSalvo, a younger man, at a party. She takes him to bed, a relationship develops, but he has a girlfriend who makes phone calls from Korea. Christine is jealous, the affair becomes violent, the man is blinded and a trial must decide whose fault it really was."