When Oscar Kornblatt, fifty-five year old lead violinist with the New YorkCity Ballet, falls in love with Ginny Valentine, an eighteen-year-olddancer in the corps de ballet, he sets in motion a devastating train ofevents. For while he expects his affair with Ginny - young, vivacious andambitious - to be brief, he never imagines that she will fall in love withhis son. Gabriel, like his father, is transfixed by Ginny. And, hismarriage to the beautiful but highly unstable Penelope already crumbling,he begins a passionate long-distance affair with his father's formermistress. But as Oscar and his wife fail in their struggles to separatetheir eldest son from the dancer who has bewitched him, disaster starts toseem inevitable...