The book examines and challenges some of the contemporary values and morality of love by chronicalling the love life of an ordinary young man from its uncertain roots through many experiences with women and other men towards happiness and understanding. In a light-hearted manner, it reviews love as it is actually experienced (and rarely recorded) by a man in his body, mind and spirit. The man in the story is ''ordinary'' because he believes that even though he has seen and experienced much magic, it is nothing beyond that which any other man can or will experience during the course of his life.