Rachel Saunders is a successful middle-aged attorney struggling with the inevitable. Her seventy-nine-year-old mother, Dora Landau, is nearing the end of her life. Dora, who once had a tenacious zest for life despite enduring horrifying days at Auschwitz, is now riddled with cancer. When Dora passes away in June 1996, Rachel's grief is nearly unbearable. As she becomes consumed with work, she has little time to dwell on the hollow space...