Mattie Rhodes swore she would never go back to that Virginia town, to that old farmhouse where life as she knew it came to a shocking end over three decades earlier. But the seventeen-year-old girl she was, the girl who left her heart and soul in that house, is urging her to respond to the discovery that its for sale. She sets out on her journey back, the memories flooding her mind and convincing her that, soon, she would regain all she had lost. But what she finds, standing in her old bedroom, is that the past can never be reclaimed.