Late in the Day

The peaceful, settled lives of school headmaster Alexandr and his artist wife, Christine, are upended by a phone call from their oldest friend, Lydia, telling them that husband Zachary has suddenly dropped dead. When they had all first connected years earlier, the pairings were reversed. Lydia had developed a huge crush on Alex, her handsome French teacher, who also happened to be married with a young son. First offering to babysit and gradually insinuating herself into Alex's group of friends, Lydia picked out Zachary for Christine. But when Alex's marriage began to come apart, he was drawn instead to Christine, just as his close friend Zach was falling for Lydia. Marriages and a daughter for each couple tightened their bonds, and their lives followed parallel and symbiotic paths until Zach's untimely death turned things upside down.