Meet Theobald Moon—eccentric English expatriate, compulsive overeater, and doting father to young Josephine. We encounter the Moons leading a contented, solitary life in their own remote corner of the Arizona desert. But things weren't always so solitary—Theo's life was once turned upside down when a couple of Slovakian wanderers turned up in his patch of desert, changing his existence forever. And now their contentment once again is threatened by Josephine's need to know about the secrets of her father's past, and her own. With an engagingly eccentric cast of characters, and far-flung settings ranging from a Slovakian shoe factory to the Arizona desert, Betty Trask award-winning author Susan Elderkin weaves a touching and enchanted story about finding love, happiness, and belonging, even in the most unlikely of places.