Following a failed marriage to a `large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba`, Humbert Humbert decides to move to America to work as a tutor. Much to his dismay, his plans change and he moves into a boarding house in Ramsdale, New Hampshire. But his disappointment quickly fades after he realises he lives next door to the `light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul Lo-li-ta.` The relationship blossoms between the man `with a cesspool of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile` and the sassy, vivacious young girl in Nabokov`s highly controversial take on the classic American road trip novel.