Tanya and Tilly were inseparable, like twin souls, always conscious of one another, just as black is aware of white and day of night. Tilly was a dreamer, kind, compassionate and loved by everyone. Tanya saw the reality and longed to escape from it. But Tilly was the stronger then and Tanya had to suffer her regrettable choices, a victim of her foolish defenceless heart. Tilly's fiancé and friends were devastated by her death. Only Tanya shed no tears. This was her birth... Twenty-three years after the accident, rich, bored and emotionally anaesthetised, Tanya has achieved the complete antithesis of her old self. In an attempt to rediscover what she has lost, she embarks upon a search that takes her from California back to Australia and Tilly's family, friends and lovers. A search that propels her inexorably through the ghosts and shadows that have shaped her life towards the truth—about herself and about Tilly Beamis...