Tony is a military historian who speaks backwards. The waifish Charis works in a store that sells crystals. Roz is a successful financier. The three of them, it would seem, have nothing in common. But an iron thread binds them together: Zenia, a woman who stole all their men, a woman who changes personae as often as some people change shoes, a woman whose ashes they believe lie buried in a metal canister at Mount Pleasant cemetery. But Zenia is back.