Wine can work miracles. Jay Macintoish, a writer who doesn’t write, finds six bottles of homemade fruit-and-berry wine preserved miraculously since his childhood—memories he recalls with sharp nostalgia, pleasure, and bitterness. A quirky old gardener, who once strongly shaped Jay’s fate and then disappeared without a trace, created wine capable of turning an entire life upside down. Searching for himself, for his place in the world, and for his lost talent drives Jay out of London to France, where he finds what seemed to be lost forever…