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When Rachel becomes involved in the lives of the Livingstones it is with an acute appreciation of their home - beautifully furnished and richly decorated. They have won an undisclosed amount of money on the football pools. But rather than enjoy their new-found wealth, seem sadly resigned to it. They do, however, appear to take pleasure in the association between Rachel and their daughter Heather, seeing Rachel as a good influence. However, no one can foresee their own destiny.

Anais Nin wrote her diary at the end of 1931, at the close of a sexually tumultuous and emotional year as part of a ménage a trois with fellow writer Henry Miller and his beautiful wife June Mansfield. 'I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife.' Nin's passionate and consuming relationship with Henry & June transformed a previously monogamous wife into an uninhibited and sexually liberated woman.

Nineteen-year-old Roe Seymour is traveling by train to a hotel in the mountain town of Ronda in Andalusia, where she hopes to recover from an illness. At the same time, she is on a pilgrimage, following in the footsteps of her favorite poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, who stayed in the same hotel 40 years earlier. It is a highly personal journey for her, a search for spiritual values and identity as she crosses over into womanhood. In Ronda, Rose meets an elderly art historian who is searching for Goya's bullfighting etchings.