Perdita Jungfrau thought she was going to be married to her husband forever, so falling in love with Nando, her neighbor’s anarcho-Marxist roofer, is a crisis. Life seems to put every possible obstacle in their way: she’s pregnant, he has a girlfriend, he’s 15 years younger and he entrusts her with his deepest secret. Now it’s three years later and Nando has been murdered. Who is the mysterious woman sitting outside her house in a parked car all day? Can someone with a childhood like hers ever be the mother her children deserve? And most of all, what should she do with the searing memories of the affair which turned her life upside down?