"This is a story about Alex [Fazio] and his sister Maria growing to adolescence in a convent orphanage in the late forties ... When Robert Steeter shows up missing, the nuns, as well as Robert's sister Maureen, assumed he has run away and little more thought is given to him. Years later, circumstances arise where there is a chance Robert will be found--at the same time that Alex's sister Maria becomes terminally ill. If she dies without telling what she knows of the past, no one will believe what actually happened"--Page 4 of cover.