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Taking a job in 1980s Paris teaching asylum-seeking immigrant girls, Willie Pears reevaluates her views about family while bonding with her young charges, including a young Indian girl who compels her to make a wrenching decision.
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When Willie Pears arrives in Paris, she’s looking for adventure and to reconnect with her brother, Luke. Even so, when she takes a job teaching at a center for immigrant girls who are all hoping for French asylum, she does not expect to feel so connected to the ups and downs of their lives—or to find romance with their attractive and committed lawyer, Macon. But as Willie learns the girls’ histories, the lines between teaching and mothering quickly begin to blur, leading her to make a risky move that will threaten to upend the life and relationships she’s found.
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