Vancouver Island, September 2003. In a family where the need to be loved has always outweighed the need to conform, further developments are taking place. A new baby is welcomed, which Kate Wilder embraces with her usual optimism, but which also creates a need within that her husband David does not share; their son is healthy, they know who they are, where is the need to prove anything more?Kate cannot settle and when the details of her father's birth...