An Israeli surgeon is asked by his director to treat his daughter and in the process falls in love with the director's wife. After a one-night stand she dismisses him, but he can't forget her, so when he has to perform heart surgery on the director he wonders, save him or not save him?

CONTENTS.- A poet's continuing silence.- Three days and a child.- Facing the forests.- Flood tide.- A long hot day, his despair, his wife, and his daughter.