A boy dicing with death in a Mediterranean field; the culmination of a marriage in Berlin; a high-born French collaborator waiting for the crowd's retribution in liberated Paris... Set across the globe, this cocktail of ten short stories by T.A.P. Woodard vividly captures the highs and lows of an array of contrasting characters, wherein a key event, however insignificant, can have a seismic effect on a life forever.