Three Times at Dawnexplores this question while leaving greater mysteries in its wake. A man and a woman -the same couple in each case- meet in a trio of hotels; first she is a seductress, he a traveling salesman; on another night she is young and pregnant, while he is old and haunted by his past; finally, she is middle-aged, and he is a child whose life is already marked by tragedy. As their third dawn together draws to a close, Baricco delivers one of modern fictions most powerful statements on the heart and the will, on kindness and the destiny that falls light as a shadow over every human life.