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In the morning fog of the North Atlantic Valerie hears the frenetic ticking of clocks Shes come from Toronto to hike on the French island of St Pierre and to ponder her marriage to Gerard Lefvre a Montrealer and a broadcast journalist whose passion for justice was ignited in his youth by the death of his lover in an airline bombing Hes a restless traveller who she suspects is unfaithful and shes the opposite quiet with an inner life she nurtures as a horticulturalist Valeries thinking about Gerard on assignment in her native New York City where their son Andre works In New York City an airplane has plunged into a skyscraper and in the short time before anyone understands the significance of this event Valeries mind begins to spiral in and out of the present moment circling around her intense memories of her fathers death her youthful relationship with troubled Matthew and her pregnancy with his child the crisis that led to her marriage to Gerard and her fears for the safety of her son Andre and his partner James Unable to reach her loved ones Valerie finds memory intruding on a surreal and dreamlike present until at last she connects with Gerard and the final horror of that day
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