Two sisters must reconcile the legacy of their family trauma and the complications of love and work in 1946 Detroit.

The war is over, her friends are getting married, and eighteen-year-old Addie heads for a different life in the city. In Detroit, Addie has the foothold of her older sister, Ruth. But Addie walks into the complications of the secrets her sister has kept, and lingering tensions from their childhood. A rocky start in a job she doesn't want makes Addie question her ambitions. But her head for numbers steers Addie through a struggle for Ruth's future and opens the path to her own.