Beattie's lover Max has given her a very special birthday present - a weekend at England's most exclusive health farm. But if he had known what was to happen there, he would have bought her a diamond instead. For thirty-year-old Beattie,, who has always fancied men, suddenly finds herself attracted to a woman - a woman twenty years older, a grandmother, even. Her initial infatuation crupts into a passion which threatens to take over her life as, desperately, she seeks admission into Elizabeth's inner sanctum - her work as a psychotherapist, her family, her very soul.