Three women, Arleta Goodfellow, (a photographer, sometimes a whore, sometimes a mistress), Susan (Su Wah) Washington (is half Chinese, the illegitimate daughter of a missionary and is trained in medicine by life on the road) and Sponetta Faye, (the innocent daughter of a traveling preacher, a run away child wife and at last a gifted landscape artist) all pass through each other's early years leaving long ago memories both good and bad. In later life they meet again causing life altering changes.

Three women, Arleta Goodfellow, (a photographer, sometimes a whore, sometimes a mistress), Susan (Su Wah) Washington (is half Chinese, the illegitimate daughter of a missionary and is trained in medicine by life on the road) and Sponetta Faye, (the innocent daughter of a traveling preacher, a run away child wife and at last a gifted landscape artist) all pass through each other's early years leaving long ago memories both good and bad. In later life they meet again causing life altering changes.