Five years after bestselling novelist Bill Oakland (Alec Baldwin) loses his wife and his sight in a vicious car crash, socialite Suzanne Dutchman (Demi Moore) is forced to read to Bill in an intimate room as a plea bargain for being associated with her husband's (Dylan McDermott) insider trading. A passionate affair ensues, forcing them both to question whether it’s ever too late to find true love. But when Suzanne’s husband is let out on a technicality, she is forced to choose between the man she loves and the man she built a life with.