On the day JFK is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles to choose between a loveless marriage and the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier, Vivien Lowe searches for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and writes obituaries to help others cope with their grief. The surprising connection between the two women will change the life of one of them.