At a questionable literary event in a seedy bar in the Toronto of the 1980's, a 40-something woman meets the proverbial dark, handsome stranger. Lulled by poetry, music and drink, she begins a relationship with a person whose past, present and chancy future seem to be created out of nothing. As she struggles to find out who and what this person really is, she is drawn more and more deeply into the sensuous trap of his compelling sexuality. In an age before Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia, she has no way to learn the true identity of the man who is soon claiming more and more of her life. And ultimately, no way to figure out how to escape...