"At 16, Edward Fitzgerald happens into a film about the Newport Jazz Festival and falls in love with jazz. Throughout the '60s'and '70s and '80s and '90s, he loves it, even adopts it as a theme for each section of his story. Through the remainder of Volume 1 of My Life with Women, he continues to adopt these themes while he goes on living his life and meeting women. He happens into Copenhagen and a loveless marriage and decides to continue the union for the children. In the mid '90s, he effects his escape from that marriage and there Volume 1 ends"--