After a thousand years of searching, of lives forgotten where only fragments of misty pasts remained, they found each other again in Los Angeles.

A high powered executive by day, Grace White is brilliant, beautiful and driven to be the best. A broken relationship leads her down a strange dark path. On this journey she meets Richard Ascot, who suffers the midlife demons of lost dreams. The stark contrast between her two lives establishes the context of the story.

There are forces that take lives in unforeseen directions. They have many names, destiny, kismet, predestination, divine will, fate. All are illusory attempts to explain chaos, to create meaning from chance, logic from randomness. Life is a journey with only a beginning and a shrouded end guaranteed.