“Kithira’s never ending drive was to live in an ideal world which she perceived could exist.” It could happen anywhere, anytime, in the United States. Kithira Manof is beautiful, self-confident, and largely invisible to those around her. Her grandfather died when she was four, and she hasn’t enjoyed a close or healthy relationship with a man since. She engages in numerous superficial relationships with men who either disgust her or become the objects of her obsession after only a brief acquaintance. Other women make her feel so inadequate that she has no close female friends.