The story is about a young woman separated from her lover.

Years later, as a woman, she is still searching for independence from her lover.

He wondered whether it was a gift from her new German lover.

He said it was a gift from your lover, but that no one must know.

Jane made herself into someone who could bear to be cut off from her lover, husband, father, child, brother, friend.

A young woman has been interrupted during a telephone call from her lover of five years.

He accepted to separate from his lover, for one year to test their love endurance.

She had just received a book from her lover who was far away.

The husband answers a phone call from his wife's new lover and passes it to her.

During the night a girl working at the inn has a visit from her lover, a soldier.