Frustrated with her parents’ country life, Lexie Sinclair escapes to London where she learns to be a reporter, embrace her postwar freedom, and, when she finds herself pregnant, raises the baby on her own. In the present day, young painter Elina navigates the first weeks of motherhood even though she can’t remember giving birth, while her boyfriend Ted is flooded with memories he cannot place. As their stories unfold, changing voices in each chapter, a connection takes shape between them.