A warm, life-affirming story about the fact that at fifty, life is only just beginning. When Johanna became a widow, she didn’t expect to lose along with her husband her compass in life. Although their marriage had long been coming apart at the seams, she feels lost and lonely. While looking through sympathy postcards, Yo finds an empty notebook—given to her by an old friend. It reminds her of how she loved in her youth to keep a diary. Page after page, Johanna realizes that she needs to get rid of all the old things and start life from a clean sheet. Everything goes according to plan until, all of a sudden, her ex-boyfriend Henry shows up in front of her. The very Henry with whom she had a not-so-brief but dazzlingly sparkly romance before marriage. Henry who brings back in her a young woman, full of joy.