London, 1958. It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, she is living as a widow, invisible. Ever since her husband disappeared seven years earlier, Juliet has been a hardworking single mother of two and a dutiful daughter. But on her thirtieth birthday, everything changes. A wealthy young artist asks to paint her portrait, and Juliet, moved by a powerful desire...