"A Distant Dream" is about mysterious beauty, environmental insult, leaving California for South Dakota, improbable onus, mountaintop success, psychotic devastation, and finding refuge. Mysterious beauty is found in the heart of a charming girl whose earliest gift is that of captivation. Things could have gone either way for Sarah, but for the tipping point. If only the insult that caused her eventual spilling over into prognosis could be identified...