"I want yesterday." That's all seventeen-year-old Maud can say when she gets the news about her sister: Lucy's dead, killed in a bomb blast. Without even a body to bury, Maud is left with only questions: How? Why? Maud's search for answers leads her down the same path her sister...
It is 1969, the Vietnam War is raging, and Jeff and Maude struggle separately to cope with the loss of loved ones and to make sense of the increasing tumult and confusion.