The old jeweler smiled as the young man took the intricately carved ivory comb and laid it on the counter. “Ah, this is one of a kind!” he said, ‘Give this comb to your true love, and should you ever be separated, it will find its way back to you.”
After a whirlwind romance set against the backdrop of the American occupation of the Philippines following the Spanish-American war, Rich gives the comb to his bride who subsequently dies at childbirth. When he is told his daughter is dead by her embittered grandmother, Rich believes her and returns to America brokenhearted.
Entitlement, romance, and betrayal breathes life into this story as it traces the mystical comb handed down mother to daughter through three generations. Follow along as, through a twist of fate, the comb reunites Rich with the family he never knew existed.
