A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters clothes & photographs from her mums bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach the girl spends her summer travelling around Los Angeles returning love letters & photographs to the men who had known her mother. As she discovers more about Lilys past & tries to re-enact her life she comes to question the foundations of her own personality.