Joanna's worst fears have been realized. Is everything over? Does anything come next for her? With her characteristic combination of courage, stubbornness, and denial, Joanna sets out to pick up the pieces and try to find in the outside world what she did not know she wanted before she went to work in the Armistead mansion. Can it truly be found again? Or is the answer to set her sights and standards lower and try to make do? The journey before her is long, rough, and she has only the slightest expectation that it will take her where she wants to go, but there is nowhere to go but forward.