To be sixty-something and still in the process of becoming? Is that how it works? Carl Postell believes it is. His thirty-six year marriage has ended. He has traded a successful accounting career for a pair of part-time jobs---and the time to pursue his dream of being a writer. Then he meets her---Maria Ruiz, his aging father's caregiver---and soon finds his literary aspirations overwhelmed by surprising new distractions. As unofficial historian of the Class of Sixty-Four, Carl's friend Jack Benz has his own reasons to locate Cynthia Larson, the one-time Prom Queen and social diva who has inexplicably become Jack's obsession. Though she had never paid attention to the likes of him, there is an unexpected urgency in his need to find her. They are four tired and lonely souls. Each of them has spent a lifetime becoming who they are. Yet even in their October Years they find themselves still in a "becoming" mode, continuing their life journey from one circumstance to another---still Becoming.