Sarah Durham, sixty-year-old producer and founder of a leading fringetheatre company, commissions a play based on the journals of Julie Vairon,a beautiful, wayward nineteenth-century mulatto woman. It captivates allwho come into contact with it, and dramatically changes the lives of allthose who take part in it. For Sarah the changes are profound - she fallsin love with two younger men causing her to relive her own stages ofgrowing up, from immature, infantile with the beautifual and androgynousBill, to the mature love, Henry.