The drugs that they gave fourteen-year-old Ellie, after an allergic reaction to an insect sting, made her sleepy. Very sleepy. At first, when he put his daughter to bed, Robert resisted the temptation to undress her completely. But when he went back to check on her again... She'll never know, he thought.
Amanda is picking up the pieces of her life after an ill-considered marriage, moving across two states back to her girlhood home. Her brother Nick is trying to put his life back together as well, having put everything on hold to care for his dying mother for the last year. Together, they try to find the strength to continue on - and perhaps more.