这部小说讲述了三个处于人生转折点的女人以及一个改变了一切的夜晚。

一天晚上，三个女人去剧院看一场戏。尽管外面山上的野火正在燃烧，但剧院内，观众们都沉浸在表演中。

玛格特是一位事业有成、冷酷无情的教授，马上就要退休了。与成年儿子之间紧张的关系和疾病缠身的丈夫令她心烦意乱。在经历了痛苦的过去之后，艾薇现在是一个慈善家，过着似乎完美的生活。萨莫是一个年轻的戏剧学生，在剧院当引座员。他非常担心自己的女朋友，因她的父母就住在火灾区。

随着舞台表演的进行，事情发展的轨迹也将把这三个女人带到一起并改变她们所有人。

A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything.

One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over.

Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at the theater, and frantically worried for her girlfriend whose parents live in the fire zone.

While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together, changing them all.