Janie Nolan's future had never been more uncertain. She was just learning to live with the loss of her mother from cancer, when she suddenly finds herself jobless after unexpected but not surprising diagnosis with autism at the age of fifty-five. The thought of moving back to her childhood home in the seashore town of Cape May, New Jersey to assess her future is nothing less than daunting. It would be here that she must reconnect with her abusive and narcissistic father.... the pinnacle of her dysfunctional family. Now ailing, he has given her the family business, a failing small stage theater, as a possible means for an income. However, Janie is uncertain as to what his true motive might be.

Enter Alec Ryan, a handsome, former intern of her fathers and now a successful Broadway producer and director arrives from New York carrying his own aching past and baggage with plans to assist Janie in restoring the theater to its original appeal and former glory. To his surprise, Alec uncovers qualities in Janie that reach far beyond her autism and its personality quirks and oddities and resolves to help restore Janie as well, simultaneously putting his own past demons to rest and possibly learning to love again.
But when small town gossip and rumors arise about Alec and a piece of jewelry left by her mother is discovered, Janie learns of a secret that may take things in another direction which may change the course of Janie's life on not only he old small stage but on Janie's life stage as well.