Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighbourhood to another, but she's not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, she asks first and foremost that her tenants respect one another's privacy. She believes in boundaries, solitude, that she has a right to her ghosts. Everything changes with the arrival of a new tenant, a dazzling woman of a certain age on the run from her husband's recent betrayal. The carefully constructed walls of Celia's world are soon tested and the very sanctity of her building is shattered-through violence and sex in turns tender and dark. Celia and her tenants are forced to abandon their separate spaces for a far more intimate one, leading to a surprising conclusion, and the promise of genuine joy.
