'I'm just 43 years old, the last twelve of which I've been frozen.' *Become a mother and remain a wife.*Ava can only laugh at the saying. Her life has been completely determined by her family for years. Now she is forty-three, the first of her three children is entering puberty and her husband is making a career. And Ava? Works like on autopilot. When she meets Kieran, nineteen years her junior, she throws herself into an affair against all reason. For the first time in a long time, she recognizes the woman she once was. But sacrificing the intact family for their own happiness? Expose the children to gossip in the small town? Ava can't do that. And yet, the love for Kieran is real and the longing for freedom is still there.