As a young girl Nora du Cayne had given up everything for love. In the Latin Quarter of Paris she had endured a tempestuous relationship and an exciting, yet crazy life that swung like a pendulum from good to bad, and back again. In her old age, she recounts a crowded and eventful life, full of trials and tribulations interspaced with happiness, and muses on what might have been if only she had led a quieter existence.