Etienne Pascal is a macho womanizer, whose affairs with women are no secret from his wife Simone. But that is the past. Etienne Pascal's life is about to change. Marginalised and neglected after giving her husband three loving daughters, Simone decides that Etienne is not the only one who can play around outside of their marriage. As it turns out, the lover she chooses and the course that lover sends them on will prove both an eyeopener and a gamechanger for Simone. At the same time, her husband's selfperception as a husband in charge will dramatically alter when he realises where the true power in his marriage actually resides. The slap she delivered him across the cheek was the first such slap she had delivered to another person in her life. Openmouthed from the sheer unexpectedness of such a physical rebuke...he could only stare across to her. "That is right," she spat. "Your wife has just slapped you... Consider that a down payment."