When Caitlin goes missing, people are reminded of the past, and speculate about what happened and why. Nearly forty years earlier, when Jen was Henry’s age, her best friend Michael went missing, and her father left. Jen’s most regular interaction is with Henry, a high school student and talented artist to whom she is giving drawing lessons.īut when Caitlin, a girl in Henry’s class goes missing, Jen is drawn out of her current safe nest into the past. She lives alone in a secluded house, watching and drawing the birds around her and tending the semi-tropical garden around her home. Jen is returning to a place of safety, a nest. Her mother has recently died, and her long-term relationship has ended. Jen Vogel, an artist and once a teacher, has returned to the place where she grew up. ‘There was more than one hazard in returning to the town where you grew up.’
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