A long, tender, sensual love letter about a lonely woman, Alice, and an encounter in a poetic Paris that leaves her ready to live life at last.

Alice, a 48-year-old former French teacher, lives a life of reading and daydreams. Hurt by her previous romantic relationships, she has definitively given up on romance. Everything changes the day she steps into a Parisian tea salon and meets a Japanese masseur of extraordinary delicacy who reconciles her with her body, her femininity, and her sensuality.
At long last, Alice is in love.
But the very day she decides she's mastered enough Japanese to express her feelings, she finds the masseur has disappeared! So Alice writes him a long letter in which she tells her story in its entirety, declaring her love for him. Everything she did not know how to say to him, she will now write...