At fifty years old, Cathleen is on her first solo holiday.
Newly untethered from a life that stopped fitting, she’s left her small Irish island for a quiet break in Tenerife: time to think, to read, and to spend an evening stargazing on Mount Teide.
Romance was not on the itinerary.
But when Emma, a warm and disarmingly perceptive stranger, sits down opposite her at dinner, Cathleen’s carefully structured evening turns into something she never expected.