As a 30-something woman living in Paris, her globe-trotting life looks sufficiently charmed from the outside. But inside, disillusionment is knocking at her door. Plagued with nagging existential questions, she embarks on a search for truth, a journey that leads her to yoga and meditation classes in Paris, a New York museum, the Californian redwood forest, a yoga retreat in the French country, a south Indian ashram and finally to the Himalayas.

What will Maya discover? Is it really true, what the spiritual masters say about another way to live? Or was she a fool to give up on a life of haute couture and foie gras? What happens when you stop chasing dreams and end up stumbling into life?