The journey of a young woman coming of age into a “worldly” world that begins in a book but graduates to full self-discovery aided by curiosity, geography, language, and a serendipitous meeting that will determine the course of her life.

Set mostly in Brittany in 1946, the story tells of the interconnectivity of the human family, the restrictive nature of dogmatism, and ultimately the beauty and freedom of an earth-grounded existence.

"The first time I saw her, she was picking chives like it was her life’s sole occupation. Against a backdrop of low, dark blue clouds, she was on her knees, bolstered by a bank of giant rhubarb leaves, her autumn-colored hair in her face, lit with breaking light from the clouds. She was in a vegetable garden at the bottom of a small pasture across from the tiny crossroads, a kind of T-junction, where I had just arrived…

Until her, I had been the only person in the world.”