A look, a glance.a moment imprinted on the memory, never forgotten. Emily Kingston thought that a return to the United States after studying abroad would bring new sources of intellectual and professional challenges. She did not expect to find Scott Preston, the one man whose memory had followed her ever since his abrupt disappearance after high school. Educated, accomplished, and focused, Emily has struggled to pick up the pieces of herself shattered by Scott's desertion. Scott, the brooding heir to his father's New York corporation, has spent the last few years of his life burying the memories of the two constant passions in his past, Emily and his piano. Emily's reappearance awakens within him restless dreams that force him to question his allegiance to his father's business visions and remember the sweet felicity of life. Are the differences they find in each other too great to heal the wounds time has inflicted, or can their youthful dreams still be found in each other's eyes? Their reunion arouses bittersweet recollections that threaten the classic romance plot of their circumstances, forcing them to consider what is more powerful, memory or love.