Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his parents, who were raising him in Toronto, separated and his mother, Sid, vanished from his life. It was not until he was a grown man that Jonathan finally reconnected with his beloved parent, only to find that the woman hed known as Sid had morphed into an elegant, courtly man named Sydney. In the decade following this discovery, Jonathan made regular pilgrimages from Toronto to visit Sydney, who now lived quietly in a well-appointed retreat in his native Trinidad. And on each visit, Jonathan struggled to overcome his confusion and anger at the choices Sydney had made, trying with increasing desperation to rediscover the parent hed once adored inside this familiar stranger.