In ancient Anatolia, a young healer fights to reunite with her true love despite her father's desire to profit from her gift. In Depression-era Seattle, the caretaker of the Persephone Music Hall finds inspiration for his art in the arms of a beautiful foreign violinist. A university professor in modern-day California struggles to keep his lab and his marriage from the clutches of his enthusiastic new grad student. A mysterious thread draws these lives together across the span of history and summons one of them toward an unspeakable fate. Follow the thread as mortal cares scatter with The Lightness of Dust.