Lucia Joyce, daughter of Irish novelist James Joyce, is a gifted and motivated dancer, training tirelessly with some of the finest teachers in the world. Though her father delights in his daughter's talent, she clashes with her mother, Nora. When a romantic relationship with Samuel Beckett sours, Lucia's dreams unravel, as does her hope of a life beyond her father's shadow, and her father sends her to pioneering psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Here, she tells her own story--an account of thwarted ambition, passionate creativity, and the power of love to both inspire and destroy.