This is a story of a woman with sad poetic name a man without a friend in the waking world; twelve blue paintings; a constellation of strangers and a family of mice. The woman is a visionary artist with endurance to match. The man without a friend in the waking world indeed has friends but most of these we'd find unapproachable. The constellation of strangers forms a sampling of the invisible strands of connection around us and within us and the family of mice...Well as one sympathetic reader remarked They're like people only better.