It's been a year since Billie Flanagan - a beautiful, charismatic Berkeley mom with an enviable life - went on a solo hike and vanished. Her body was never found, just a shattered cellphone and a solitary hiking boot. Her husband and teenage daughter have been coping with Billie's death the best they can: Jonathan drinks as he works on a loving memoir about his marriage; Olive grows remote, both from her father and her friends. But then Olive starts having strange visions of her mother, still alive. And Jonathan starts unearthing secrets from Billie's past that bring into question everything he thought he understood about his wife. Together, Jonathan and Olive embark on a quest for the truth - about Billie, but also about themselves, learning, in the process, about all the ways love can distort what we choose to see.
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