Plot
The young French writer Catherine Breillat, who published her first novel at the age of 20, suggested to Hamilton one of the favorite motives of her work, the intimate world of a boarding school teacher for girls. Bilitis is in love with the photographer Luke, but she is not attracted to physical intimacy with a man, on the contrary, she wants tender and sublime feelings. The beautiful Melissa, a friend of Bilitis's parents, also suffers from her husband's rudeness and inattention, who invited the girl to her place for the summer holidays.

Brief moments of the love affair between Bilitis and Melissa should testify to the kinship of souls. But a more adult, knowing life Melissa refuses to continue this novel. Then Bilitis decides to find a lover who is sensitive and pleasant in all respects for her, not suspecting that as a result she herself will face the first drama in her life, still childish, naive, but no less bitter....