Before meeting Angela, Reine Olsøn’s life had been gray and pointless: he had neither work nor a family. The same hopeless loneliness Reine saw in a full-figured woman with milk-white skin whom he met at church. Angela was quiet and gentle; it seemed she knew nothing except knitting, watching TV, and eating pastries. To Reine, Angela was like a blank page from which to start a new life. He taught her everything he knew himself, for the first time in years he felt his own importance and learned to love himself. Reine finally had a normal family: a wife, a home, a child. But when his son became gravely ill, it turned out that happiness wasn’t as solid as it seemed—and that an adult cannot simply be like a page torn from a new notebook…