Dido, Peter, Lulu, and others exercise their senses, seeing a walking stick, hearing the ice cream man, yelling, "Daddy!" and dreaming in their sleep.

"Caroline waited for fifteen minutes in the snow. After a little time had passed, she was simply waiting to see what would happen. It was entirely possible he would not come. If he did not come, she would be in a different story than the one she had imagined, but it was possible, she knew, to imagine anything. Inverno is a love story that stretches across decades. Inverno is also the story of Caroline, waiting in Central Park in a snowstorm for her...