As a child, Lydia Rowe developed clear and distinct ideas about what made for the harmonious life. As a grown woman, married to an artist, in close contact with friends she's had since college, mother of four children, and engaged in her career as a pianist, she seems to have achieved that harmony; her life has the order, balance and complexity of the classical trios she loves to play. Until one day when two policemen arrive at her door, and with a few words turn her delicately calibrated existence into complete disarray. In a novel of captivating realism, Lynne Sharon Schwartz explores tragic loss and broken faith, the disconnect between one's expectations of life and what one gets.