Tess Shapiro, a Brooklyn French teacher and mother of two, is glad to be rid of her cheating husband but still has a long way to go in order to heal.
She vents her frustration by drawing comic books centered on international spy Andrea Chambers, Tess's sophisticated and confident alter-ego...but there's nothing about Tess's life that is making her confident.
All that begins to change when she meets and begins dating a French widower. Just as Tess's confidence finally begins to come back, however, a tragedy in her ex-husband's life urges her to confront the reality of who her ex really was as a person as well as who her new lover really is to her.
Meanwhile, Tess becomes alarmed when she hears about anti-French terrorist attacks around the world. She tries to explain these current events to her students and children, all the while becoming increasingly alarmed herself.
Soon, everything in Tess's life comes crashing together in a whirlwind of romance and political intrigue. Will she finally come to understand who she really is and what she believes in before it's too late?