A Question of Roots is a story of discovery when the diaries of two women collide. In the current day, one woman, in a loving relationship, keeps a random diary of her feelings as she watches the seasons change and feels a change within herself. She struggles with her art and feels frustration because she seems to have lost her creative abilities. And Otilla, is a woman who has survived the plague in Marseilles, France in 1720. She is also an artist using her talents to beautify her surroundings. Both women have suffered the deaths of loved ones. Tierra meets Otilla, on paper, her journal yellowed and crumpled with age and as she translates it from French into English, she not only regains her enthusiasm for creating art but also discovers her soul.