In the wake of a major operation, a 28-year-old woman with chronic illness has twelve weeks to heal, or rather, to acclimate to her new body. In the hydrotherapy pool, she meets Frida, a young woman who looks strikingly similar to her and is also in a state of recovery. But the narrator also happens upon Sylvia, another young, convalescing woman. Throughout the narrator's recovery, these women shadow, overlap, mirror, and complicate one another, and what begins as two seemingly undemanding friendships is challenged by what each woman asks of the narrator, of themselves, and of their bodies.
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