Katherine Brigby Lewis has been married to her husband Reuben for over thirty years, raising three children in Ladue, Missouri--just outside of the city of St. Louis. Before their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, their family is faced with a devastating diagnosis which brings family secrets to the forefront. This diagnosis exposes motives, and agendas in the Lewis family, as Reuben reverts to his time as a young man in St. Louis's Gaslight Square during the 1950's. In the midst of this diagnosis, he begins to remember the time he spent there with a woman he only refers to as Ruby. From the water and land of New Iberia, Louisiana to Memphis, Tennessee over the span of forty years, we find out what it means to be chosen, to be settled for and just what it means to be loved and remembered.