This hauntingly beautiful novel is woven from three threads. It is a hard look at a modern marriage gone bad, careening toward its inevitable destruction; it is an ode to the free-spirited souls of the world with their fragile, sometimes pathetic, idealism; and it is a lyrical tale of an appealingly shy and lonely young woman, Meg Hannah, and of how she is inspired to take her first courageous steps toward self-fulfillment. Then, one sunny Sunday morning, she comes face-to-face with a stranger, and her life is changed forever....