Myra wishes that she were the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. If Myra had been Tereshkova, she would not have lived her life moving in marital paralysis, parenting her children and being the woman perennially behind the man. If Myra had been Tereshkova, she would have realised that little girl who showed the boys how things were done. If Myra had been Tereshkova, she would have gone into space, her greatest and most precious dream.

Myra Foreman is a woman who missed living her own life on earth, but now may have another chance, in space.