This is a love story about the healing power of love. Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and Obadiah Greene, an eighty-year-old conservative Jew and two years an embittered widower, meet and fall in love. By word and by deed, Aphrodite revives Obadiah's spirit and fulfils his physical and mental needs and leads him to discover and marry a beautiful Jewish widow, who is years younger than him.