Helen Clapp is skeptical, even contemptuous, of anything remotely pseudo-scientific. So it's particularly vexing when, early one morning, she gets a phone call from a friend who has just died. As Helen is drawn back into Charlie's orbit, she is forced to question the laws of the universe that always steadied her mind and heart. Funny, wise, sharply perceptive, taking us from the storied campuses of Cambridge to Hollywood and back, this is a moving story of friends and lovers, lost and found, at the most defining moments of their lives.