Maine Characters

Vivian Levy drives her late father Hank’s old truck from New York City to his house in Fox Hill, Maine. She brings the urn containing his ashes and plans to honor his request to scatter them in the lake. However, when she pulls into the driveway, she is alarmed to find a strange woman inside the house. The woman introduces herself as Lucy Webster, Hank’s daughter. Vivian realizes that this may be her one chance to learn the hidden secrets of her father’s life. She tells Lucy that Hank is dead.

Lucy has been miserable since Memorial Day. She should have realized that something was wrong when Hank didn’t return her texts for six weeks, but with her responsibilities as a teacher at the end of the school year, she didn’t question his silence. Because Lucy and Hank always spend July together at the cabin in Fox Hill, she came to the house, ready to meet him. Now, Lucy finds herself paralyzed by grief over the news of his death. 

Vivian is furious that she has to deal with Lucy’s presence. She recalls when her mother, Celeste, told her that Hank died of a heart attack; he was just 54.