Goodbye, Francesca!

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.