Virtual Adultery and Cyberspace Love

Carolyn is a 37-year-old mother of four in the midst of a passionate affair. She spends up to 18 hours a day with her lover in the virtual online world Second Life. She has never met him, but, to her husband's dismay, she plans to abandon him – starting a new real life with her online love. This remarkable film tries to decipher why some people prefer a synthetic world to the real one.