"Veronica is late, and Juliâan is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. But as the night stretches on before him, and the hours pass with no sign of Veronica, Juliâan finds himself caught up in the slipstream of the story of his life-of their lives together"--