Zhizn' Uilyama Mora, shkolnogo uchitelya istorii v malenkom sonnom gorodke, malo chem otlichaetsya ot zhizni ego sosedey: stabilnaya rabota, semya, dvoe detey.
No vse menyaetsya, kogda v gorod priezzhaet yarkaya i ostroumnaya hudozhnitsa Reyn Karter. . .
Lyubov k molodoy zhenschine rushit privychnyy uklad zhizni Uilyama kak pesochnyy zamok. No chto, po suti, strashnee - ostavit semyu ili ne popytatsya izmenit zhizn, v kotoroy net mesta lyubvi i chuvstvu?