When young Eleanor Amore finds herself pregnant, she returns home to her estranged family in the Bronx. She has only been back once before when she was ten years old during a wonder-filled summer of sun-drenched beaches, laughter and cartwheels. But everyone remembers that summer except her.

It's the trouble you aren't expecting that gets you. And it's all around you, Bronwyn, it's all around you like the air....