When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.

Ecological thriller about the delicate interconnectedness between mankind and Earth.