In this book about pleasure, a peculiar affair between two otherwise married protagonists, he a Frenchman and she a New Yorker, is the backdrop for an exploration of the male orgasm and of the difference in the perception of physical pleasure between a man and a woman.His ebullient French sensitivities allow her to see pleasure through a different lens and to escape the straightjacket of her catholic upbringing through an enchanted narrative of movies, literature, music, food and sex.