In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins to Margaret Salt. Cal's wife, Becky, is a seer who can conjure the dead. Margaret's husband Felix is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harms way, until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold.