For several years, Vita Ostan has been teaching a journalism course at an American East Coast college during the summer. In an exclusive, closed world of learning and encounters – heavily regulated yet charged with the intensity of communal living – an entirely inappropriate closeness develops between Vita and her student Zev. It is the time of the Snowden revelations and the global NSA scandal, and Zev expresses outrage over the pervasive surveillance. The lecturer and narrator of this story is more than twice Zev's age. Confused, elated, unmoored, and defying all rules and regulations, she embarks on what seems to be an impossible love. At the same time, Zev undergoes a transformation that does not go without consequences. Exciting, disarming, sensual, and sarcastic, Zora del Buono narrates the themes of prohibitions and the courage to transgress.