Living alone on a sun-drenched French island—your wealthy husband gone, your daughter working in another city—you find yourself adrift. The days are long, the nights even longer. In 2023, you join social media, a rank amateur with a thrilling new world suddenly at your fingertips.
It starts innocently enough. You post photographs of yourself on vacation. Then you tap the Like button on a Brad Pitt fan page. Almost immediately, someone identifying themself as the mother of Pitt is corresponding with you online. Days turn into weeks, weeks into months. You feel you have found a friend, a friend who eventually tells you that her son needs “a woman like you.” You laugh it off. Surely it’s a joke. But then another message arises from the ether of the Internet, someone initially identifying himself as “William Bradley” but soon revealing that he is … Brad Pitt!
