It‎'‎s 3 a‎.‎m‎.‎ and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor‎.‎ She‎'‎s in her thirties‎,‎ she has a husband‎,‎ a house‎,‎ they‎'‎re trying for a baby ‎- and she doesn‎'‎t want any of it‎.‎ A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later‎,‎ she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing‎:‎ pleasure‎,‎ devotion and balance‎.‎ So‎,‎ she travels to Rome‎,‎ where she learns Italian from handsome‎,‎ brown‎-eyed identical twins and gains twenty‎-five pounds‎,‎ an ashram in India‎,‎ where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor‎,‎ and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace‎:‎ simply sit still and smile‎.‎ And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her‎.‎