- A middle-aged woman visits a Caribbean island once a year in August to place flowers on her mother's tomb.
- Without planning, she approaches a man who is sitting alone in the hotel bar on the seventh of her pilgrimages and asks him to come up to her room.
- The weather is stormy, mirroring their excitement: a thunderstorm is present, and blue herons are flying agitatedly above the lagoon.
- The man is gone when she wakes up in the morning. Not even his name is known to her.
- She then makes it a yearly goal to have the same encounter with a different stranger.
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