Jim, Dossie and Hector, their son, are hermits by nature. They leave their large, noisy families to go on the road when Hector is four, working, traveling, and living in different places. Intelligent isolates, they study Nature's ways and magic. Hector grows up on the road and goes to college to become a park ranger. Then Dossie begins to change into a person Jim and Hector can't understand any more. They stay faithful to her in spite of everything, until Dossie sets a trap for them and almost succeeds in betraying them. Filled with fear, a parting of the ways looms on the horizon. New thoughts must be thought, and new roads traveled. This story is for those souls who live gently with the color blue. A 6x9", 81 page love story, stunning in its intensity and simplicity.