Since no one in Anna Foster’s family has spoken to her great-aunt, Claire, in decades, it’s a shock when Anna inherits Claire’s seaside cottage in Maine. The timing is fortuitous: Anna has just lost her job. She flees to the village of Banbury, intending to spend a few weeks clearing out the cottage before returning to her familiar anonymity in Boston. Instead, those plans take a sharp pivot when she discovers a brutal letter that her grandmother wrote to Claire over 60 years ago.

 

Anna becomes consumed with uncovering the multi-layered truth about Claire’s estrangement from the family, a truth which has parallels to Anna's own life. Meanwhile, Anna’s burgeoning relationship with a local artist, Seth, causes her stay in Banbury to shift from temporary to indefinite, until a disagreement threatens to dismantle everything they've built together.

 

Guided by Claire's past and her own hopes and fears for the future, Anna must decide what it means to be home.