After a failed suicide attempt, Elise escapes her life as a pastor's wife by moving to the Victorian village of Ferndale, California.
As she recovers from the depression that had overwhelmed her, she uses art to paint the emotional pain she suffers from her bipolar, her unsympathetic church, and her self-absorbed husband Zed.
While she find support in her recovery, and causes a fit in Elise's family.
Zed is devastated that Elise left him, especially because he cannot understand her.
Russian Hill Press Against the wall: family and marital relationships, paperback/neva j. hodges
