Successful California attorney Terry McQuinn looks back on his childhood in Maine. He's the son of a widowed caretaker who is too engrossed in his work to spend much time with his son, possibly out of incurable grief following the early death of Terry's mother. When Terry's father dies, he returns to Maine to take care of and settle his father's small estate. While there, he also tends a house his father cared for when Katherine Wentworth, a New York social worker whose parents owned it before their divorce, decides to show the house to her adopted blind daughter, Olivia and calls to ask Terry to re-open the house.