Trying to escape her heritage, making Tokyo, New York and Paris her home and becoming "a citizen of the world", the formerly successful corporate lawyer ends up in a poor suburb of Tel Aviv, in the house she grew up in, nursing her dying mother. She is forced to revert to Hungary of the beginning of the 20th century, face the ghosts of the past and belatedly cut the umbilical cord that has had an all-consuming grip on her for more than five decades.