This story by Lily Brett is as much a description of how a group of holocaust survivors settled into Australian life as it is a tale of a marriage gone sour. One of the couples is understandably obsessive about security and the welfare of their only daughter. Against their wishes, the girl marries outside their faith and, despite five years of psychotherapy, carries some of their concerns and obsessions into her marriage. A passionate affair with an artist friend of her husband’s opens up a new, more carefree life. Themes include assimilation, friendship, family, intermarriage/racism, obsession, infidelity, love.