It’s 1914. And an adventurous sixteen-year-old Bessie Coughlin stands on the deck of the RMS Lapland, sailing from Ireland to the United States, eager to leave a decimated family history behind and enjoy a future of hope and vitality in the Irish community of Portland, Maine. But change doesn’t come with any guarantees, and her daughter Cora suffers a horrific assault. By 1995, Bessie’s great-granddaughter Cassandra is nearly invisible in a bustling Chicago, where she buries herself in her work, disconnected from her mother and the world around her. When she stumbles upon information indicating she may not know the truth about her family, she seeks to wrest the stories from the graves of her mother and grandmother. Will Cassandra be able to find the truth and begin her own healing?