Nausicaa is a young woman of immense Bright, strong, resourceful, stunningly good looking, witty and eloquent. Recently graduated from the Sorbonne, she is about to embark on a teaching career and seems to be poised for a happy life of success and fulfillment. But then an event emerges that will forever change the aspiring artist, leaving her shaken and confused, doubting everything she has taken for granted. A man from alien horizons enters into Nausicaa's life and keeps her in a state of utter obsession--then begins an arduous odyssey of self-knowledge in which she finds herself totally A spellbinding journey of passionate attraction and profound rejection, of fear and fascination, of love and loathing.