Penny Morris is confused. At twenty-six she was beginning to feel like she was in charge of her life. After building up her own business for two years, advising consumers how to become more environmentally-friendly, organic, recycled and energy-efficient from her market stall in Truro, finally finding a niche in life after years of going nowhere, she has to go and do something stupid like that. Penny is just one of seven central characters whose lives become woven together by a thread of relationships from a dim and distant past, by the events of present circumstances and by an encounter with future possibilities. Gradually the reader is drawn into a deeply profound investigation into reality and the meaning of existence itself. Just who is the narrator anyway, and who exactly is he narrating these stories to?