Steve grows up in the pastoral countryside of upstate New York. But his partially Jewish descent fascinates and compels him, and he feels torn between two worlds. Until, a young man starting out, married and trying to make it as a writer, he takes the huge move–to Israel, feeling that his destiny is there. And maybe it is, until, under the stress of being immigrants, his personal life starts to fall apart, and meanwhile an old romantic memory from America not only refuses to die but comes back to life. This is a novel of searching, of identity, of trying to reconcile past and present, and of confronting an ultimate challenge.