A diary written in 1919 is found in an old tenement building in Hell's Kitchen. The writer's name is the same as that of the young Irish woman who just moved into a newly renovated apartment on the same block a hundred years later.
Who was this other Breda Gulley? Could they be related? Bree becomes fascinated with her namesake's story, leading her to dig up details of Breda's life in 1919. In the process she confronts troubling questions about her own life and is drawn into an unlikely romance with the wealthy descendent of Breda's former employer. Together they uncover Breda's amazing secret and its unexpected impact on their families' lives a hundred years later.