Lydia Hofman struggled with a serious illness for sixteen years and overcame it with the help of the selfless love of her family, the kindness of friends and knitting. Now she, the lucky owner of the Guiding Thread yarn store on Flower Street, has enrolled the first group for knitting courses. It was as if Ariadne’s magic thread had firmly tied together women who had never met before. The common energy of overcoming helps the brilliant Jacqueline to restore harmony in the family and improve relations with her simple-minded daughter-in-law and her “unfaithful” husband, the informal combative Alix to find a reliable haven in the sea of life, and Carol, desperate in her attempt to give birth to a child, to find a wonderful son. Lydia herself, under the influence of this energy, begins to believe that her love is not in the past, but in the future.