As the literary executor of her great-grandmother's estate, Audrey Benac tracks down a series of letters, which she finds in Harvard's Houghton Library. Her ancestor corresponded with fellow Polish poet and Nobel Prize nominee Jozef Wittlin after the two writers were both forced to flee their home country during World War II and the Holocaust. Audrey clashes with her Aunt Ania over how to display and celebrate the letters and their legacy.