"If I didn't have you as a witness, no one would believe me!" Emma says to her therapist, Brigitte. The architect, who craves harmony and has always had to be strong for others since childhood, is desperately searching for love and, while on vacation in 2007, begins a tumultuous on-again, off-again relationship with Yasha, a much younger Turkish waiter. What felt so easy on vacation proves problematic in everyday life, because here she can't avoid it-not Yasha and not herself. When Emma slides into bankruptcy and seeks therapeutic help, she confronts the issues of her life, builds self-confidence and self-love, and becomes the calm, self-assured, and happy woman who discovers love in its fullest sense...
