During the years Joan Anderson was a loving wife and mother she slowly and unconsciously replaced her own dreams with the needs of her family. When her sons grew up, she realized that life no longer centred around the home, and that her relationship with her husband had become stagnant. She felt that the best part of her life was finished. So, shocking herself and her husband, she retreated alone to the family cottage on Cape Cod. Over the course of a year at the cottage she gradually discovered...