Eleanor and Esmerelda are identical twins with a secret language all their own, inseparable until a terrible accident claims Esmes life. Eleanors family is left in tatters: her mother retreats inward, seeking comfort in bottles; her father reluctantly abandons ship. Eleanor is forced to grow up more quickly than a child should, and becomes the target of her mothers growing rage. Years pass, and Eleanors painful reality begins to unravel in strange ways. The first time it happens, she walks through a school doorway, and finds herself in a cornfield, beneath wide blue skies. When she stumbles back into her own world, time has flown by without her. Again and again, against her will, she falls out of her world and into other, stranger ones, leaving behind empty rooms and worried loved ones. One fateful day, Eleanor leaps from a cliff and is torn from her world altogether. She meets a mysterious stranger, Mea, who reveals to Eleanor the weight of her familys loss. To save her broken parents, and rescue herself, Eleanor must learn how deep the well of her mothers grief and her fathers heartbreak truly goes. Esmereldas death was not the only tragic loss in her familys fragmented history, and unless Eleanor can master her strange new abilities, it may not be the last.