A beautifully crafted love story set in the fateful closing months before the handover of the territory to China; newly divorced and relied to be free of the husband who embodied all the worst characteristics of Hong Kong, Lucretia Barnes is filled with doubts about her ability to love again, but the thirty-two-year-old American is captivated when she meets Robbie, the extraordinary handsome and charming son of English mother and Tibetan father; Robie sets out to show Lucretia his Hong kong, the real envelops them and their relationship deepens, so does their unspoken fear that their together will be brief; the ominous future looming over this unique corner of the world shadows their happiness.