When Henry offered shelter to a homeless woman sitting alone in the rain, he thought it was just a small act of kindness. He didn’t expect anything in return — just wanted to do the right thing.But within days, his dusty, cluttered garage had been transformed into something warm and lived-in. And Dorothy, the quiet woman he took in,
was nothing like she first appeared.As Henry gets to know her, he learns she was once a professor of English literature — a woman who had it all before unimaginable tragedy shattered her life. A loving husband, a bright teenage son, a fulfilling career… all lost in one senseless act of violence. With nothing left, Dorothy had let herself disappear from the world.
But Henry’s kindness gave her a thread of hope to hold onto.And in return, she helped him heal from his own emptiness — the grief of losing his mother, the weight of loneliness he hadn’t even realized he was carrying,
