Beware, the beauty fades in all of us. Clara, an intoxicatingly lovely Greek belly-dancing woman, born from Greek immigrants who had their own tragedies, finds herself facing a brain tumor which will put her on the brink of admittance into the psych ward. Will she maintain her sanity and convince others, most importantly her husband, Charlie, that she has control of her mind? Truth, beauty, and goodness are quantifiable in this novel depicting a family that immigrated to America hoping to find happiness.