A teenage girl travels to Paris in the 1970s trying to find out about her sister's alleged suicide, and falls in love with her dead sister's boyfriend.

It is 1977, and Phoebe is retracing the steps of her beloved older sister Faith, who traveled through Europe in 1970 with her boyfriend Wolf. Searching for answers, Phoebe, sets off through Europe, using Faith's old postcards and Wolf as her guide. Ultimately, Phoebe and Wolf examine their own growing attraction to one another as the truth of Faith's death is revealed.

In 1975, at age 18, Phoebe is unhappy. When she was about 10, her father died of leukemia; her older sister Faith became a political radical, left for Europe with her boyfriend Wolf, and commits suicide in Portugal a year later. Phoebe, who has romantic ideas about both her father and Faith, decides to trace Faith's steps, find Wolf, and learn what really happened. She finds Wolf in Paris, and he tells her stories of Faith's radical activities, including joining the Red Army in Berlin. Phoebe has visions of her sister, seems close to madness, and may be headed for suicide herself. It's the trip to the cliffs of Portugal that will make the difference: breakthrough or breakdown?—<[email protected]>