内容简介：
This is Ana's intimate story. Raised to be independent by an artistic single mother, Ana is young, beautiful, ambivalent, and desired by everybody as she suffers some of life's cruelest tragedies: deaths, both natural and unnatural; loss, both expected and unexpected; and injustice, always incomprehensible. She relies on her inherent disposition and quiet determination and with her sufferings come profound self-discovery. From a peaceful childhood to seemingly unbearable losses of innocence at an early age, Ana finds herself in the company of very few who care for her truly. On her own at a small, Protestant university, she meets entertaining international students, confused roommates, and searching friends. When Ana accepts a friend's invitation to spend a holiday in southern Spain with an ex-patriot couple who run a small hotel, her world begins to change in more ways than she could have planned. She is immersed in the unfamiliar atmosphere of foreign cultures, illegal immigrants, and family drama, and upon returning, realizes that she can't escape her desire for more.