Although nobody blamed him outspokenly, Finn knew that it was his fault, for it was he who let Roza go. No sooner had the boy realized that it was a kidnap, the black car with Roza trapped inside left. Finn went to the police station, tried to describe the kidnapper, but everything was in vain, for he could neither describe nor recognize the face of the kidnapper. Contrary to the popular opinion that he was in love with Roza, he wasn’t, he always thought of her as a sister. It was his elder brother, Sean, a tall, strong and reliable emergency medical technician, who was in love with her and – to Sean’s astonishment - she reciprocated his feelings. Finn found her in their barn, an injured and scared young woman, whose thick Polish accent made it next to impossible to understand her. The brothers helped her and even gave her a key to a spare room, so that she could have some privacy. Since Didi, the brothers’ mother, had left them several years ago, Sean was fully responsible for their well-being. To provide Finn with everything needed, Sean gave up on a dream of going to a medical school and learned not to trust anyone.
That was why he and Roza danced around each other for such a long period of time. They knew better than trust people. Being a beautiful woman, Roza always attracted men, who wanted to use her and never saw her as a real person. The only person she could fully trust was her grandmother, but she was far away from her. Eventually, these three started living in an absolute harmony. Sean worked, Roza cooked and taught her poor motherless boys how to garden, Finn just loved them and they loved him back. Everything changed with Roza’s disappearing. Sean pretended that nothing happened, that she was never present in their lives, he even stopped looking at his brother and would probably stop talking to him altogether, but he couldn’t. Although nobody believed him, Finn continued to hope to find her. His feelings for Petey, an angry-looking girl, who heard the word ugly more often than her own name, distracted him from his rescue mission. The night, when Finn’s horse hit him, he was taken to a hospital, where Roza’s kidnapper visited him, but he failed to remember his face again. It was Petey, who discovered that Finn was face blind, which led to a quarrel between them.
Petey said that he was attracted to her just because she was ugly and people with prosopagnosia were usually attracted to rather peculiarly looking faces. The boy, who deeply loved her, was offended. Finn’s neighbor told him that the city where they lived was an unusual place, for there were gaps which led to a places which could only be described as the parallel universes. Roza was kept there. Later on, when Finn remembered that strange feeling he and his best friend got near the corn flied, for it seemed to them that plants were whispering and talking, he understood that he could find the gape there. He succeeded. The kidnapper, the Scare Crow, promised to let her go if Finn would find her in a crowd of people. Thanks to Sean’s wonderful drawing of her hands, he recognized her. However, the man was not going to let them both go. He was sure that Roza would never agree to leave her friend there. Knowing that he loved only her beauty but not her, the young woman sliced her face from an ear to a mouth with a piece of a mirror. The pair managed to escape. When they returned home, they found a large crowd in front of their house.
Sean couldn’t believe his eyes, for he was sure that he would never see her again. She asked him to put stitches on her cut. As soon as he finished the task, his head fell on her lap and he cried like a baby. Both of them couldn’t believe their happiness. Finn forgave Petey for not trusting him and they started anew. The story ended with a party for Roza. The young woman was going to return to aPoland to finish her study, so that she could come back later and build her life with Sean.
