This novel is set in a south Wales that is undergoing economic regeneration, where old certainties are dissolved beneath the drive to move forward to a better future. As the new millennium arrives, Rob and Kath's relationship is in need of some resolutions to carry it forward. But Kath decides instead to free herself from a partnership that's going nowhere, with dramatic results. Rob, an artist and dreamer, finds his world falling apart while Kath's resolve is confronted by loyalty--and guilt--toward her former lover. In this skillful charting of human emotions and needs, the lines between love and hate and friendship and passion are crossed and recrossed with disastrous consequences.