"Emigrating to another country has not been a new and unique phenomenon in my family's history," she thinks, "as it may not have been in the history of other Jewish families, who decided, or worse, were forced, to do so."

The protagonist, a university professor, tries to understand through the stages of her own life, the role of luck. Thus, she discovers that the migrations from country to country that she and her relatives have experienced, are related to a certain degree, to luck and the random characteristic of life events.