Since Leaving His Job to Look After Alexa, His Eight-Year-Old Daughter, Thomas Bradshaw Has Found the Structure of His Daily Piano Practice and the Study of Musical Form Brings a Nourishment to These Difficult Middle Years. His Pursuit of a More Artistic Way of Life Shocks and Irritates His Parents and His In-Laws. Why Has He Swapped Roles With Tonie Swann, His Intense, Intellectual Wife Who Has Accepted a Demanding Full-Time University Job? How Can This Be Good for Alexa and for the Family As a Whole? Meanwhile Tonie Tunes Herself Out of Domestic Life, Into the Harder, Headier World of Work Where Long-Since Forgotten Memories of Herself Are Awakened. She Soon Finds Herself Outside Their Tight Family Circle and Alive to Previously Unimaginable Possibilities...