The story begins with Hannah, an almost new wife, going to the airport to pick up her husband Mark. He fails to arrive and she is thrown into the very normal flurry of anxieties about illnesses, missed planes, accidents and so on. As she tries to get details about his whereabouts from his secretary and partner, she is surprised to find that most of them believe both Mark and her to be on a vacation to Rome - one that she had no inkling about. For the first time, a sliver of doubt begins to tr...