Foreign Bodies

Bea Nightingale is a fifty-ish divorced schoolteacher whose life has been on hold for many years since her brief marriage. When her estranged, wealthy and very difficult brother pleads with her to leave New York to retrieve his son -- a young man she barely knows -- who has run off to Paris, against her better judgment, Bea accepts.

Traveling from New York to Paris to Hollywood, aiding and abetting her niece and nephew while waging a war of letters with her brother, and facing her ex-husband for the first time, Bea Nightingale has become a newly liberated woman who accidentally wreaks havoc on the people she tries to help.