As Victoria Edwards lay dying, she recalls the life she could have lived to her daughter who struggles to understand the meaning of the old woman's final words. Remembering lost loves, heartache, pain, and the agony of forgotten dreams, she begs her daughter, "After I die, please don't let me be a box on someone's mantle."It isn't until after her death, that her daughter understand those words, and embarks on a quest to give her mother's life meaning.