Violet Kubelick, a brilliant young grad student studying near"death experiences, now withdrawn and closed"off after a mysterious, failed suicide attempt. She and her two artist"roommates are forced by financial matters to finally step out of the protective bubble they've created for themselves in their Brooklyn loft while Violet herself forms a cathartic relationship with a young, terminally ill girl in a hospice she is interviewing for her thesis and the damaged bartender who lives downstairs. A story of changing, relationships, love, life and what comes after we die.