This Woman follows the protagonist, Paolo (Paul), into his early adulthood. Picking up in the years following the traumatic, sudden death of his bricklayer father (recounted in Christ in Concrete), the story explores Paolo's profound psychological and spiritual fallout. 

As he works to support his family in New York, he finds himself trapped in a deep existential crisis. He grapples with a loss of faith in Catholicism and a suffocating sense of grief. To cope with his internal darkness, Paolo falls into a path of obsessive sensuality and hedonism. The plot ultimately centers on his passionate, tempestuous relationship with a woman, using this heavy emotional and physical bond to examine themes of survival, guilt, and the complex process of healing from grief