How can a young woman, Willow Ames, for whom time has stood still for two years, understand all that has happened in her absence? Appearing dramatically in the chapel at the instance of her husband's wedding (after a divorce on the grounds of desertion) she unleashes a powerful and shocking chain of events. She had been a victim of a rare mental condition, known to psychiatrists as Dissociative Fugue, which is occasioned by a severe mental shock. Though she now remembers her earlier life, she knows that two years are missing from her memory. In order to fill in those lost years, she must play the sleuth to follow her own tracks, and those of her now remarried devious husband, who apparently had compelling reasons to thwart her efforts. He demands she move out of town to accommodate his new wife. A cousin, Donna Whitcomb, assists Willow in her search for the lost years. They find she was living in another city, where she had formed close friends, and a romantic relationship with Lewis Tyler, a detective. Tyler is searching for the murderer of a young woman two years before. Both searches lead tothe same conclusion.