改編自同名暢銷小說，身為知名作家的喬和妻子瓊安結縭40餘年，是眾人眼中欽羨的文壇賢伉儷，就在喬即將前往瑞典獲頒諾貝爾文學獎的前夕，瓊安正面臨著她人生中最大的衝擊：那些生命旅程中無數次為了支持丈夫的犧牲，終於在她多年來隱忍喬外遇的壓力下逐漸反撲，她無法確定自己是否還能繼續委屈下去，進而成就屬於丈夫的一切…。

(轉載自 - 威視電影)

Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're about to meet her. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty - the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humour. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career.