In this imaginative “soft fantasy,” a man and a woman meet and discover that they are in fact former residents of a parallel realm, an eternal kingdom that coexists with the human world yet remains separated by hundreds of years. Horse, a gnome from Gnode, has won the right to wish for anything he chooses. Dissatisfied with his life and curious about what lies outside his world, he chooses to journey to the human world. Meanwhile, Illumina, daughter of the king of the salamanders, is chosen by the angelic council as another candidate for crossover. The two grow up as humans, totally oblivious to their connection with the magical realm. As their relationship deepens, however, they gradually confide in one another, telling of the unearthly happenings that can be traced back to their respective childhoods—strange experiences when the eternal kingdom reached out to touch their lives once more.