Tracy's adolescence is unpromising, but following her teenage years she plunges happily into the rewards and challenges of motherhood. Then, her offspring and spouse depart the nest plunging her into an emotional vacuum from which she dreams of escaping to a life in rural Spain. However, the reality of her days in that sun-soaked country rapidly descends into an extended darkening nightmare. Inspired by a true story, this book is a first hand account of the joys and trials of family life surmounted by the thrills and cataclysmic events that can follow a life changing decision. One early reader said that the graphic descriptions of rural Spain in the book were so real that "I believed I was actually there and could almost smell the air"