French Cajun Nora Broussard Greenwood was born with the wanderlust. However, her adventurous spirit doesn't fit the sedate expectations of 1960s catholic New Orleans suburbia. On a whim, she takes flying lessons to become a pilot. Nora discovers the liberating freedom of flight, but an illicit affair with her pilot instructor complicates all. Confronting her ruthless husband for a divorce, Nora is temporarily grounded. Cast out of her home sans her children, she is threatened with her life. Desperate to regain them, she steals her husband's plane. Trials and tribulations erupt as she navigates the turbulence her life has become. In a bizarre twist of fate, she survives by serving as caregiver to her lover's sickly wife; hoping he will fall further in love with her as his soul mate. But is that to be? Nora must make the most difficult decision of her life in order to get things back on track.
