This is a fictional story of a fiery international romance between two extraordinary women, Gloria Fernandez, a pediatrician from Cuba and Rosanna Maggiore, an Italian university professor. The story, which takes place in Havana and Rome, is complicated by a chance encounter between one of the women and Roger Larsen, a widower from Minnesota, searching for a new life in Rome. The novel takes a look at life in Cuba, at the historic relationship between the United States and Cuba as well as at the role of the Catholic Church seen through the eyes of a communist and a Lutheran. More significantly, the book examines the decisions facing those individuals who are forced to consider political exile.