Simon and Emily Bear look like a couple who have it all. Simon is a respected doctor, while Emily shines professionally as a partner in a premier public relations firm. They have a beautiful house in Baltimore and a healthy daughter. But their marriage is scarred by old, hidden wounds. Even as Simon tends his patients' ills, and Emily spins away her clients' mistakes, they can't seem to do the same for themselves or their relationship.Simon becomes convinced he's discovered a cure for chronic pain, a finding that could be a major medical breakthrough. As he yearns to prove he's a good doctor and to make amends for a missed diagnosis years before, he is oblivious of the pain he's causing at home. Emily, still struggling to move beyond the devastating loss that she and Simon suffered fifteen years ago, comes to realize she hasn't felt anything for a very long time - that is, until a lover from her past resurfaces and forces her to examine her marriage anew.Remedies explores the extraordinarily complicated facets of pain, in the nerves of the body and the longings of the heart. What would you endure in order to avoid feeling pain? And would you believe in a cure? Depicting modern-day marriage with a razor-sharp eye, Remedies is about what it takes, as an individual and as a couple, to recover from profound loss. Read Less