 A timid, insecure popular author (Parker Posey) with an overly-attentive professor husband (Jeremy Northam) decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister (Elizabeth McGovern) and a bi-sexual friend (Brooke Shields), she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer (Patrick Bruel) is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.