Dr. Elias Vale likes constants. The same café. The same breakfast. The same carefully ordered days spent teaching, researching, and studying the stars. He is alone, but never lonely, and perfectly content to keep it that way. Then a colleague who has spent years trying to get his attention arrives unexpectedly at his door with dinner. For one evening, Elias allows someone into the private world he has built around himself. But when a man spends his life searching the heavens for patterns, even an unexpected guest may eventually find her place among the stars.