I am alone in a large family these days and this is the worst feeling I have ever experienced. Until a few years ago, I had no idea that loneliness is worse than sadness.

When her father is moved to a care home, Beth offers to clear out the family home and is surprised to find that the attic door where she once played with her siblings is locked with a padlock. Her surprise grows even more when she discovers what is hidden behind it – a chaos of her father's paintings, piles of discarded papers, and many useless things in their otherwise meticulously tidy house.

While clearing the clutter, she finds a diary page, written in her mother's handwriting. Everyone knows that Grace had died in a car accident, but this manuscript brings to light a much darker version. Very quickly, Beth forms a different and disturbing picture of her family: her mother suffered from postpartum depression and her husband seemed very little like the loving father she and her siblings knew…