Poems consider mortality, grief, loneliness, violence, religion, the past, art, nature, and love.

Sally Marsden must rebuild her career and her personal life when a car accident leaves her both physically and emotionally scarred. Sally once had everything she wanted: a promising career as a model and a photographer boyfriend. That is, until the accident which subjects her to months of hospital treatment for facial injuries, and leaves Mike Chancery too guilt-ridden to continue their relationship. With her career cut short, a skiing holiday in the Austrian Alps provides a change of perspective. A young ski instructor, Johann, starts to play a minor role in Sally's recovery... but then, by an unfortunate coincidence, Mike arrives at the same resort. Heartache, jealousy and love become interwoven, and it seems the idyllic Alpine resort Sally has chosen is set for an emotional showdown.

Kerry loved her husband, artist Luke Austin, but he was often unfaithful to her, and had several girlfriends. Patient Steve loved Kerry though, and had done for years, staying faithful to her through all the tempestuous period of her marriage.

As a group of respectable citizens gather on the summer lawns to play tennis, exchange pleasantries and gossip of indiscretions, we learn that a young pianist has just committed suicide, that Friedrich Hofreiter, the town's leading citizen, has just ended an affair with an associate's wife, and that Friedrich 's wife's rejection of the pianist caused him to take his life. Friedrich (a well-known philanderer) is stunned and appalled -- not by the fact that his wife may have had a dalliance, but that a man shot himself because of her virtue. He leaves for a trip to the mountains in the company of friends and the beautiful young Erna, who admits to having loved him since she was a child. Erna awakens complicated passions in Friedrich, while Friedrich's wife, worn down by her love for her unfaithful husband, takes a lover in his absence.

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