Julie Prentice has everything, but she feels increasingly insubstantial and of no consequence. Her uncertainty leads to depression. When a reckless liaison destroys her marriage she becomes a wanderer, until, in a remote village high in the Himalaya, she rediscovers her love of and talent for singing. It is the first step in a difficult journey through Asia, Europe and then America, seeking meaning and purpose. She becomes a singer of the blues.