Searching for warmth and simplicity after a brush with death, Cynthia sets out for a quaint little fishing village on the Mexican Pacific coast. With the help of an uninvited reptilian housemate named George, blue-collar wisdom imparted by a local ex-pat, several dogs and a cast of characters and fisher-folk who have lived in the sleepy little pueblo for generations, she begins a five-year journey in search of a new life. Along the way she discovers exactly what she didn't know she had been seeking all along. Sometimes, what you think you want leads you to what you really want. Navigating new cultures and inconveniences, Cynthia finds solace and gratitude in unexpected ways; mining meaning from the mundane and humor from humiliation, she reminds us that the small moments in life---the threads of silver---are what matter most.