Jimmy Winslow has two mothers. Honor, who raised him, sends him as a student from New Hampshire to Vienna, where he is to become a father. Vienna in the sixties is a place full of secrets and temptations, and Jimmy dives in headfirst while also searching for his biological mother, Esther Nacht. What he experiences is a spectacular rollercoaster ride, the kind that only life in John Irving's books can create - full of deep emotions, incredible twists, and characters that stay with us.