Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other. These people, shipwrecked lovers, are dying to love, to escape the abyss of solitude...
A brilliant but disgraced Civil War general is sent to a sleepy Tennessee town for a second chance. As his risky tactics win battles, a dangerous affair with a married woman threatens to unravel everything—especially when her jealous husband is offered a fortune to end the general’s life.