Baltimore woman disappears during family vacation, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking away from it all"...

An author of guidebooks for travelling businessmen goes through life "accidently". It is an accident tinged with purpose when he gets involved with the astonishing Muriel and her talent for finding adventure.