35-year-old Anna has recently lost her husband to leukemia. Some time has passed since his death, and it’s time for Anna to get back on her feet, but she is struggling to move on. Out of the blue, Anna’s estranged grandmother, Goldie, telephones and orders her to come to New York at once. Goldie Rosenthal is overly opinionated, obsessed with good manners, and flat-out nasty sometimes, but she’s family. Before we know it, Anna is sitting at JoJo on the Upper East Side and agreeing to drive Goldie across the country in a Rolls-Royce to deliver a collection of valuable Japanese art to a long-lost friend in San Francisco.Goldie is not entirely honest with Anna about her true motives for the trip, though. She has a tightly kept secret about her life in San Francisco in the early 1940s, and, though hesitant to reveal it, she knows she must share part of her life in order to help Anna move on and discover happiness.Alternating between Goldie’s experience in the 1940s and Anna’s perspective now, Dana Sachs has created an unforgettable duo whose stories teach us about the enduring power of love and family.