Russian Lessons — Catherine Texier

A divorced writer and mother of an eight-year old little girl gets involved with a tempestuous thirty-year old Russian illegal immigrant. What starts as a sexy and edgy romance with no strings attached, quickly turns into a darker bond of obsession and compulsion as Yuri constantly pushes the limits sexually and emotionally, driving their relationship to an intense and brutal pitch. Their stormy liaison eventually threatens the narrator's life as her own complicated feelings and vulnerabilities violently conflict with Yuri's desperate pursuit of love and security in the US â€" just as 9/11 strikes.