Theo & Flora

When stalled novelist Charlie Wasserman’s investment-banker wife divorces him, he finds among her belongings a box of letters. Written between 1940 and 1944, the letters reveal a love affair between her grandfather, Theo, a forty-something lawyer at the time, and Flora, a much younger journalist.
Even though Wasserman’s ex-wife has her lawyers instruct him to destroy the letters, an idea for...