<p>Will Barrett of Linwood North Carolina is a depressed widower with a peculiar tendency to fall down in strange places. Allison the girl in the greenhouse has just escaped from a mental institution and is working hard to make a new life for herself. When their paths cross in a most unusual manner a relationship begins that will help restore two struggling outcasts to new life.</p> <p>What follows is by turns touching and zany tragic and comic as Will undertakes his own Pascalian wager in search of proof of the existence of God. Leaving his comfortable home atop a pleasant Carolina mountain and descending deep into the bowels of the long-unused Lost Cove cave he is prepared to wait for a sign—which may of course be death. What he is <em>not</em> prepared for is what actually happens.</p>