Faces by the wayside meaning

Faces by the Wayside is the story of a traveling soul and her adventures in the world from Mexico to Paris to New York One day in Mexico City Alma an office worker and mother of four children has a small accident out the window she sees the Mexican finance minister s wife and wonders how it would be to live her life That most negligible part of Alma the traveling soul goes off for her to find out So begins a tale of nine lives Faces by the Wayside