Dr. Randal Reilly is an aging psychotherapist from Vancouver. Kayaking off the BC coast he finds a naked lady in a lifeboat. She is in an amnesic fugue. Harjit Singh is an appeals court judge. Jeff Kroberts is an applied artificial intelligence engineer from Seattle who developed language nanobots and delivers a keynote address at the Shanghai Symposium. Winston Xing is a gifted musician and executive chauffeur who teaches Jeff how to pace his life, mysteries of Chinese culture , and challenges like the Great Wall. These people tell stories that are interconnected and explain some of the psychological underpinnings of the Belle Islet Lady.