It is not often that 16-year-old Lucas Swain makes friends. He prefers to be alone, thinking and pondering. So it is quite an event for him when he befriends Violet Park, because Violet is dead. And Lucas saves her urn. The first time Lucas heard about Violet was in a small mini-car office, in the middle of the night. Her remains are in a box on a shelf. The mere fact that she once lived and now has to stand forever in a smoky office affects Lucas so deeply that it becomes a mission for him to find out who this woman was. What he learns helps him better understand his own life.