Longing, anger, admiration, sorrow, and fear. An explosive mix of emotions grips Uriah when a sudden call from his mother announces her arrival. Almost twenty-five years have passed since his mother left the ten-year-old in the care of his grandmother without a word and disappeared. Until then, Uriah had moved with her from one shabby apartment to another, waiting for her while she cleaned stairwells or sold glass beads on the street, only to vanish afterward with the glassblower in the back room of his workshop. He defended her when other children mocked her. Uriah revives his past life and tries to make sense of his life and feelings as he prepares for the encounter with his mother. A novel about self-determination and responsibility, about repressed love and the loneliness of loss.