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James O'Neill, a former war correspondent, is now a highly successful novelist living in Paris after a failed marriage. He has recurring dreams of Lynnie Slattery, his first love whom he left in Chicago twenty years before, and he has been unable to resolve the cultural and family conflicts of his childhood. On a stop over in Chicago while returning to Paris from a movie conference in Los Angeles, O'Neill is irresistably drawn to the lake resort where he and Lynnie spent their summer vacations.