After struggling for years to conceive, Dolores Walsh loses her four-year-old daughter to cancer. A year later, at a bereavement support meeting in Queens, Dolores meets Sal Esperanza, a charismatic psychic who reportedly connects people with deceased loved ones. Dolores attends Sal’s séances, unable to resist his promise of hope or to ignore his powerful sensuality. Joe, her husband, insists Esperanza is swindling Dolores. When he pressures her to see a psychiatrist, she lays bare for the doctor the desperate need and festering secret that explain her obsession with the psychic. When Joe threatens to destroy Sal with information about his past, Dolores rushes to warn her lover, only to hear him say goodbye. Devastated, she takes to her bed and refuses to eat . . . until she feels a stirring within her. Is she pregnant? If so, who is the father, Esperanza or Joe? And even more problematic, who is Esperanza? Is he a selfless savior or a self-seeking seducer?