Or do they? In this masterful display of structural precision, Caldwell slowly unravels the complementary nature of these two lives--at first glance hermetically sealed from one another--until their shared fate becomes a symbiotic relationship, as though they were two sides of the same coin, intersecting and reflecting one another. Through events operatic in tone and reach, until the irrevocable, shattering conclusion, Rachel and Phillip come to redefine our notions of love and kinship, and embody the human need for redemption and forgiveness.