""This morning , Clara asked me why we were friends. I replied that it was inexplicable. But I spent the day asking myself the same question. Why you, the American, the pragmatist, the businesswoman, the working girl, why do you occupy such a place in my life?" With clarity and sensitivity, Mich le Halberstadt explores the strong bond between two friends facing adversity, asking: What do we look for in others? How do we remain faithful when everything's changed? What happens to the feelings that we thought were unalterable?"