As Joe Kovak prepares for his 18th birthday, he suffers pangs of a recent breakup, mixed emotions toward his best friend's girlfriend, and confusion over the odd jealousy he suddenly feels when he sees his friend Loki with her new boyfriend. But Joe's normal teenage angst fades into the background when he begins having hauntingly vivid dreams about his deceased mother. With the return of a mysterious man into his family's life, Joe finds himself wondering why it's taken him 13 years to ask a crucial question. As his dreams become more frequent and more vivid, Joe suspects the reason he's never asked his father how his mother died, is because deep in his memories, he's always known, and has fought hard not to remember. But the memories of his mom, of how she lived, and how she died, have suddenly become too much to forget.