When France's feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir calls up American novelist Nelson Algren during her visit to Chicago in February 1947, their lives are set to change irrevocably. Algren takes de Beauvoir on a whirlwind tour of his city and when the pair returns to his apartment, a passion is sparked that will last for the next two decades. Reimagining this passionate affair, Douglas Cowie takes us on a journey that explores what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. The result is as captivating as it is poignant.