For Shira Klein Yonatan Luria and his daughter Dana it is winter--winter at work winter among friends winter at home and winter of the heart. Yonatan is a marginal writer a fifty-year-old widower left to raise his child alone. When he meets Shira a bestselling author paralyzed by stage fright the thaw begins as man woman and girl enter a halting relationship alternately tender and belligerent generous and withdrawn.