When a thunderstorm delivers a broken, wordless Dawson Grant to the porch of three strange Sisters at the edge of Reckless Abandon Swamp, he wants only to disappear from a world that has quietly betrayed him. Under the Sisters' roof, Dawson begins the slow work of rebuilding a life from the wreckage of the one he lost.

Hushpenny Parish has a way of drawing buried truths back to the surface. As the town prepares to reopen its long-abandoned theatre, Dawson's new play refuses to be written. All his attempts seem to fail, over and over again. The past he buried will not remain silent. Memories surface in fragments. And the Sisters, who seem to know far more about him than they should, insist that the real story has yet to be told.