It all began in the summer of 1979 ...Sylvia Gardner is a na?ve library clerk who lives with her dysfunctional mother in Richport, Illinois. Vivian tells her daughter not to trust men because they only want to use her. After being dumped by her first boyfriend, Sylvia falls in love with an English actor after watching him on a PBS drama. Researching Alexander Thorpe's life and career for two years, she saves her money so she can visit him in his Cotswolds...