Laura is an independent and sophisticated woman, whose career as an interpreter has taken her all over the world She is highly paid and has had many lovers and admirers but, only once in her adult life has she experienced passion Laura is forty-four when she learns that, because of a terminal liver disease, she only has a year to live With no work or family to turn to she must decide how to fill her remaining time In a typically flamboyant gesture, Laura invites the dozen most important men in her life to dinner and makes an extraordinary proposal to them all