When the Gleason and Stanhope families become neighbors, Lena Gleason—feeling lonely in her new place—seeks the company of her neighbor, but cold and unbalanced Ann Stanhope wants to be left alone. A friendship forms between their children—Kate and Peter, Lena’s younger daughter and Ann’s only child.
As the years pass, a childhood attachment will grow into something more… But one of their innocent dates becomes the cause of a terrible tragedy that will forever change the lives of both families. The Glessons and the Stanhope families will part and go their separate ways, and over the next thirty years Kate and Peter will spend trying to find an explanation for what happened.
And then they will meet. Will they be able to help each other understand and forgive?