Biography? Fantasy? Metaphysics? Philosophy? Richard Bach's possibilities are endless... "The One" is Leslie and Richard's flight through time and space. At one point, Richard and Leslie did not meet; in another they are one - the magical and omnipotent woman Pai; in the third, Leslie dies and Richard seeks death, in the fourth, the military pilot Richard must drop an atomic bomb on Kyiv, in the fifth... Light paths branch and multiply under their seaplane into new and new spaces... How can they return Home?