The story involves a middle-aged man named Mark Randolph who meets a girl half his age who claims to be from 240 years into the future.
"The Dandelion Girl" revolves around a 44-year-old man named Mark Randolph who works as a lawyer in his own, albeit small firm.
[1] One day early in this two-week vacation, Mark climbs the hill overlooking the surrounding area and finds a 21-year-old girl named Julie Danvers with blue eyes, dandelion-colored hair, and wearing a white dress.
Mark has quickly fallen in love with Julie, but hates himself due to his marital situation and the fact that he has never even so much as looked at another woman since he married Anne.
Bored, Mark goes into the attic to find some jigsaw puzzles, where he accidentally knocks his wife's old suitcase off a shelf, which opens the rusted lock.
After reaching out to touch her rain-wet cheek, Anne knows it is all right, and the fear she had carried in her eyes for the past twenty years disappears forever.
[1] Reviewers have said of it that "All I know is that, though I have read other touching love stories in our genre, this one made a personal impression, a unique connection for me—don't ask why.
[3] "The Dandelion Girl" influenced Yutaka Izubuchi in the production of the Japanese anime series RahXephon.
[5] The book and the story are also the subject of episode 8 of the Japanese television series Biblia Koshodō no Jiken Techō.