A nurse meets an older chief surgeon at a party. He's attending a doctors' congress in Nairobi and asks her to come along. Returning ten days later, she feels used.
Henriette is a fiercely independent nurse with the knack of solving all her friends problems, without being able to cope with her own. Lonely and single, she conceals a soft centre beneath a cynical, party-girl exterior, cursed by a string of worthless boyfriends and lovers.—David Kinne <davros@gargoyle.apana.org.au>