Here is Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people\'s babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women\'s self-defense non-profit where she works. She believes they\'ve been making love for many lifetimes, though they have yet to consummate in this one.When Cheryl\'s bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter Clee can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl\'s eccentrically-ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee--the selfish, cruel blond bombshell--who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love of a lifetime.