Nik is an eccentric art student obsessed with painting his dancer girlfriend, Jennifer. When one day she inexplicably disappears, Nik s world is shattered. Determined to find her, he embarks on a cross-country journey following a scant trail of clues. He doesn t anticipate how far he ll have to travel, what he ll do when he runs out of money, or the fact that an intimidating stranger is looking for Jennifer, too. Nik and Jennifer fade into the background of their own tale, surfacing now and again like ghosts as the rest of their mysterious story unfolds through a series of chance encounters with intricately linked strangers. An English professor coping with a dying mother, a rebellious teenage girl, a debt-ridden civil servant, a disillusioned ex-anarchist documentary filmmaker, and other disparate characters who encounter the separate couple as they circle one another in a tentative dance. "Circle of Stones" reveals as much about the grief and the grinding frustrations of contemporary life as it does about the pursuit of love at all costs."