"The problem of growing old is the prospect of losing things.

Jillian Anne Gilchrest was an old woman.
And she was losing things."

And after her husband of over forty years passed away and was lost to her, Jillian began a new life alone, secluding herself in the large two story house she had lived in since the day she was wed.

But now she has agreed to her daughter's request that she take in a lodger. And the young man who occupies the small room at the end of the hallway will come to change her life in a most remarkable way.