Em's dog walks in Govans, a Baltimore city neighborhood, bring her into contact with Danny, a neighborhood resident who cannot resolve his history, especially the hidden parts of his past. Their friendship crosses racial lines in a city in which the geography has historically reinforced a divide. Nature is the force that makes their paths cross, and reconciles the long past with the present, the traumatically lost with what can be brought to a state of peace, and this specific location with the diverse human lives that inhabit it.