Joyful Alice is in danger of destruction by the very thing she most wants - Love. One hot southern California evening in 1968, teenage Alice goes through an experience so difficult, so sad, that one person alone could not have survived it. And so Alice becomes two inside, and Tiger, as she names the other person of her, rescues them both. Now grown up, there's still trouble: Alice is so fearful of men she won't let Tiger advise her in matters of love, and Tiger is so determined to be a healthy sexual woman, she may just destroy Alice in her effort to grow. Also - when will the men in Alice's life stop hurting her over and over and instead help her heal?