In this collection of short stories set on the Prairies, Gloria Sawai examines the heartbreaking lives of people who are flawed but at the same time blessed In the title story, an outcast and misunderstood woman and her disgraced lover struggle toward a last chance at redemption In others a young girl learns important things about herself - some of them extremely unpleasant - on a storm-ravaged Mother's Day weekend a woman sitting on the deck outside her Moose Jaw home receives an unusual and unexpected gentleman caller a woman on a road trip in search of her erstwhile husband finds instead the one thing she never expected to see again in her lifetime a group of young school students prepares a memorial for the town's deceased doctor, at the inadvertent risk of deeply offending his widow