The Clarity of Light is the story of an alluring French-American artist and the erotic game she plays to distract herself from her disintegrating family and doomed marital engagement. Set in southern Provence in the 1990s, it traces the journey of Nicole Coche-Dury, who has traveled to the region with her fiancé, Sean Thomas, to reunite with her ailing grandmother. Inspired by the writings of Vincent van Gogh, she embarks on a dangerous quest to discover the true nature of love