This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to ead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.
他们第一次相遇：亨利36岁，克莱尔6岁；他们结婚时：亨利30岁，克莱尔22岁。亨利是个时间旅行者，对于自己在时空的穿梭，亨利不能预知也无法控制。克莱尔只能一次一次看着他离去，孤独的等待不知道会在什么时候的重逢……