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It is present day Oregon and an elderly widow lives alone.  While we are not told her name, we find that she has just recently sold her house and that she is going to be placed in an adult care facility at the behest of her son, Julien.  Just months ago, her own husband died and she discusses at length just how weak she feels herself to be.  Her eyesight is growing weaker and she is not as strong as she once was.  One day while in her attic she discovers something that reminds her of the past, of a life that once was and how it was a very different world.  Discovering the name of Juliette Gervaise, our heroine slips back into the past, back into the world that once was…