One thing Natalie had never wondered about until now: After the explosion of tributes, then what? Who picked up the wilted flowers, the rain-soaked poems, the blurred photos, the jarred candles?
After a woman's mother dies along with the man who was about to propose marriage to her, she is forced to pick up the pieces. She gives up her job that provides more stability than joy, and heads back to her childhood home where her mother ran a bookshop and her grandfather, now beginning to suffer from dementia, continues live. There's a pile of work to be done there, getting the bookshop's finances in order and keeping the building from falling apart both of which she manages to do with help. Not for nothing, in the course of the repairs, the building reveals its secrets: keepsakes hidden in its crevices by former occupants including a rare set of books which ultimately acts as a saviour.