It's 1943, the summer temperatures are soaring, the world is caught in the middle of a war, and in Brooklyn Judith Weissman is trappped by an unsatisfying marriage and life, living in a community which scrutinizes everything one does. She begins an affair with a returning soldier, someone she idolized back in school, but the war has changed him, both emotionally and physically. That summer Judith learns that nothing stays the same, not even one's most treasured dreams.