Publisher's Synopsis
A pregnant woman, believed killed in a bridge accident in the Scottish Highlands, seizes her chance to disappear from her uncaring husband. Determined to safeguard her baby's future and reinvent herself, she befriends illegal immigrant Silva, whose husband and daughter, she alone knows, have died in her place. As the bridge is rebuilt, the two women build a precarious existence in a makeshift home by the river. While Silva waits for her family's return and the pregnant woman awaits the birth of her child, they are helped by a boatman whose devotion to them masks his guilt for a past disaster.
