A man, drowning in grief and anger.
A woman, struggling to survive in a marriage fraught with violence.
A chance meeting at a summer yoga retreat in 1981, and in one day, everything changes for both of them.
Sarah Ellerbe looks forward every year to the yoga retreat held in the remote Sierra Nevada mountains of California. She tells herself it is to improve her practice. But is it? Or is she trying to escape her domestic life in San Francisco?
Dan Langer doesn't want to be there at all. But his twin sister, Maria, talks him into it, telling him, "You need to get unstuck, Danno. Promise me you'll do the yoga." Hippie nonsense, Dan thinks, but Maria has always been persuasive. Besides, with Lake Tahoe close by, perhaps he can sneak in some fishing. Anything to keep him from thinking. Anything to keep him from the darkness that has threatened to pull him under every day for the past two years. Where will this fateful encounter lead? Will Sarah and Dan break through their walls to the anguished people within, their love healing each other? Or will the looming specters of both their pasts keep them trapped in an endless cycle of pain?
Beginning in 1981 and spanning four decades, "The Impossibility of Forever" is a bittersweet love story that enters the lives of two damaged people and asks the question: What happens if we let someone in? Will they see only our sorrows, or will their light bring out the best in us?