Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover she's been committed to an Alzheimer's unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators saying about her that she's "not making it through the week", Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to get out of the nursing home. Becoming more and more lucid, she devises a plan of escape. She goes back to her now-abandoned house to hide while she figures out her next move. The only problem is how does she convince anyone that she's not actually demented? With her memory shaky, how does she know she can even trust herself? But any lingering doubt that she's in real danger is erased when a would-be killer shows up in the middle of the night, proving someone is determined to get rid of her. With the help of Marion, her sister and reclusive computer hacker, her thirteen-year-old granddaughter Mel, and Mel's friend Royal, Rose begins to piece together the fragments of her life, gather her strength, and fight back in order to find out who is after her and take back control. But someone out there is still determined to kill Rose, and they're holding all the cards.
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