On her seventeenth birthday, Meg the apprentice witch learned that she had only one year left to live. The Eternal Witch, Faust told her a way to counteract the curse by growing a seed of life using one thousand tears of joy. After Meg began her quest, she came to understand people, life, and death, more deeply. Now that she has been granted her witch's name, she is invited by the witch of Blessings, Sophie, to a magical ceremony that only happens once every twenty years. There, Meg will be changed forever. Only the greatest of witches can laugh when confronted with adversity. The heart wrenching tale of a young witch and her mentor continues as the seasons pass from winter into spring.