Patrick German has a lovely wife, a baby son and a prestigious career. So his decision to walk out on it all to become a schoolteacher is perplexing to everyone. He soon becomes mesmerized by a ten-year-old girl in his class, Joanna, who has an otherworldly authority about her, and finds the angst-ridden confession he set out to write is becoming something far more extraordinary: an eyewitness account of an angelic life on earth.
