When vaguely discontented Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep) meets National Geographic shutterbug Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood), what begins as a guarded friendship soon erupts into an intense affair that rekindles Francesca's forgotten passions. But Francesca finds her emotions in conflict when the time comes to choose her future. This emotional, Oscar-nominated drama is based on the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller.