After a long day at the vet clinic, Miriam Goda returns home to find an unexpected visitor. Stephen Bristol, a man she barely knows, is waiting in her kitchen. When Bristol dies in a car crash shortly afterward, Miriam realizes his visit and death have opened up a can of worms that have set her on a strange journey to discover the real reason behind his final actions.

Although still grieving after the loss of both her son and her marriage, Miriam is unable to resist being drawn deeper and deeper into the mysterious events that prompted Bristol to take that fateful drive so soon after speaking to her.