A farmer desperately clinging to his pride is tormented by a terrible secret. A displaced student projects his dreams of home onto the city. On a perfect day, a young woman's world changes forever when she meets the boy next door. This collection of short stories is a poignant and touching portrayal of human vulnerability and vision. These are everyday lives, knowingly or unknowingly intertwined, inseparable from their environment – and their past. In his spare, beautifully crafted prose, Richard Rossiter reveals the subtle undercurrents that lie beneath the everyday – the complex desires, deceptions and short-lived joys that link and separate families.