On the coast of Alabama, there is a house cloaked in mystery, a place that reveals the truth and changes lives...Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband between her reality and the woman she wants to be she doesnt quite seem to fit into her own life.But everything changes after her controlling mother, Lillian, passes away. Ellies world turns upside down when she sees her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, at her mothers funeral and learns that he is in charge of a documentary that involved Lillian before her death. He wants answers to questions that Ellies not sure she can face, until, in the painful midst of going through her mothers things, she discovers a hidden diary and a window onto stories buried long ago.