Rachel is shocked by the love story that her aunt told her in confidence: Rachel’s mother, Emily, was so in love with a nineteen-year-old girl that she abandoned her studies and familiar society and settled with her lover, Jacob Becker, in the wilderness, but could not bear such life, escaped. Jacob, having lost interest in everything and everyone, crashed a year and a half later in a Cessna. More than thirty years later, Jacob’s relatives, for some unknown reason, invite Emily’s entire family to his niece’s wedding. Rachel, secretly hoping to touch the family secret, flies to New York alone, and history repeats itself - she passionately falls in love with the son of the late Jacob...