How Marty met Sandy, his wife-to-be. Introduction of Katherine, Marty's troubled, Borderline patient.
Introduction to protagonist, psychologist Marty Martindale, reflecting on the events that have turned his life upside-down. While watching some young college coeds playing Frisbee along the Charles River, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Marty meets an old mentor, who asks a simple but agonizing painful question regarding his marriage.