With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, out-of-work starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, successful screenwriter Elwood, but his agoraphobia allows only for short conversations through the windows. He´s the closest thing she has to a friend in her exile, though, as she and her maid, Eva, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, rarely make conversation. Then they both happen to spot Elwood´s sister-in-law and caretaker, June, digging in his rose garden one morning just before dawn. After that they don´t see Elwood at all anymore. Where could a man who never leaves the house possibly have gone? Has something happened to Elwood? The two women can´t help trying to find out. But as they sneak up on and into June´s life, they discover an unexpected secret, and then a shared goal that´s even more startling.