The story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants, a mother, son and daughter, are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely the family's story is...

Aware that her time is running short, the irascible Wu family matriarch Lily is eager to repair the strained relationship with her adult daughter Mary and help her shy eighteen-year-old granddaughter Emma find her voice. As her final wish, she persuades longtime friend Charlotte, Emma, and Emma's best friend Karen to spring her from her L.A. nursing home and take a wild road trip up the California coast to a special place from her past. Along the...

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