The year is 1968. The author and her four daughters join her husband (Roy Fisher of the Chicago Daily News) for a meeting in Paris of European correspondents of his newspaper and turned it into an unusual tour of London, Paris, and Rome. They begin in London, where they are hosted and entertained by Bill Stoneman. In Paris their host is Paul Ghali, a French correspondent, related on both sides to Medici Popes. He got hold of (in an adventurous way) and published Count Ciano Diaries - written by Mussolini's son in law which had incriminatory evidence against Mussolini's family and officials. French "temper" was being expressed in posters, graffiti, demonstrations, election night parties and the imprisonment by students of the president of Sorbonne (Rector Roche). The author compares French temper with American violence as had been expressed that year by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Describes tours of Versailles and museums. In Rome: an audience with Paul VI and a story to go along with it involving Cardinal Cody, a night time visit to the Coliseum, a drive to Anzio, & an adventurous visit with journalist Pulitzer Prize winner, George Weller. The trip continued to Pompeii, Amalfi drive, and ancestral Ireland (where a daughter contracts typhoid fever and recovers at home in Chicago).