A damaged young man soul-sickened because his birthmother didn't want him, Edwin is in crisis, desperate to find her. A lover tormented by secrets and deceit, Simon acts out in aggression, uncharacteristically. Can there be inconsolable grief asks Leah in anguish, a mother who's lost her son in Afghanistan. A burned-out social worker with a gifted youngster, Janey seeks redemption. What brings together family, parents and children, allies? How do women ultimately chose lovers, husbands, friends? Compelling patterns tangle in desire and memory. When they collide, these lives become intrinsically connected. All matter and energy, whatever the mega lightyears apart, exerts a pull on all other matter and energy in the universe. Ordinary people get tangled up by the impassioned tugs of their roles as lovers, parents, children, friends, drawn together -- seemingly separate but linked in far-reaching ways.