Three contemporary short stories with only one common thread between them - death. A girl, fuming mad, while walking from school to visit her grandmother, contemplates everlasting love in the wake of her grandfather's passing. A nephew, saying goodbye to his uncle, looks for one last sign of life from the beeps and rhythms of hospital room monitors. A New York journalist travels across the continent to uncover the mystery of the children that stare into the sun and claim to see the Mother Mary. Intertwined with short, scripturesque passages that posit a paradigm to the age-old questions: Where is heaven? Where is hell? And where in the cosmos could there be an existence for the beginning of life, and life after death?