Forty-year old Amelia Earhart is lost on an island in the Pacific, yet finds herself resurrected in her sister Muriel's study just outside of Boston. Seventy-nine-year-old Muriel is reeling from the double loss of a son and a husband. Seventeen-year old Sam Barry, winner of the Amelia Earhart Scholarship, is just beginning her life as a coed, trying her best to separate from her needy mother and her dysfunctional family. Their lives intersect in surprising ways, and long buried secrets come to light, revealing the special, powerful intimacy women share, whether they are siblings, best friends, or mothers and daughters.