Stuart Sawyer and Nicole Reilly meet through mutual friends on a blind date and experience a magical evening in a local diner on a rainy night in April. It may never get better than this, a feeling they each sense, but a feeling not daunting enough to prevent either their stunning courtship or, later, a reversal of fortunes. Though sexually compatible, their disparate family backgrounds and the religious chasm between them inform their selfishness, their naiveté and their destiny.