A Brush With Truth

Jasmine Rose has come with her two boys to Mendocino, California, to care for her sick mother. After her mother dies, Jasmine decides to raise her sons, eleven-year-old Sam and eight-year-old Logan, in the idyllic ocean-side town. She takes a job with Patrick Talty, a demanding gallery owner, and she takes up oil painting. Childhood disappointment and her late mother's disapproval compel her to keep her art a secret. Jasmine falls under the spell of a voice on the radio, a New Age shaman named Joss. Jasmine meets Joss and falls in love. Joss's spiritual message inspires her to show her paintings to a critic, who rejects them. When all her efforts for validation unravel, Jasmine quits her job with Talty, and she falls into spiritual and emotional disheartenment. Jasmine recovers from this blow to her spirit through selflessness and service to others. She returns to Talty's employ and nurses him back to health after he suffers a mild stroke. Talty and Jasmine travel to Ireland, the land of his birth.

The Emerald Isle reveals itself to Jasmine as a mystical place where worldly-and otherworldly-secrets are revealed, and Jasmine finally finds the spiritual and artistic fulfillment that has eluded her.