A young Swede, Zigny Raud, received a grant and went to study in America. At the university she meets an American guy, also a student, who, having fallen in love with Zigny, offers her his hand and heart. She accepts the proposal, but is not going to sacrifice her passion for medieval Japanese poetry on the altar of marriage. What the rivalry between a man and the poems, the translation of which has become the meaning of Zigny’s life, will result in, what both will have to go through before they truly find each other - the reader will learn about this from the new novel by Winifred Lennox.