Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupery met in Buenos Aires in 1930--she a
seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his
acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a
fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble,
exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would
have her as his wife.
Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to
Casablanca to New York. It would take them through periods of betrayal and
infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment