The reclusive, mentally unstable famed novelist Eve Kelly has not had to leave her house in six years, thanks to the tender care and enabler tendencies of Tess Grieves, her editor, agent and keeper. Eve has built herself a perfect world; a world in which nothing exists beyond the four walls of her study, and no one exists besides her beloved Tess. But when Tess announces she's getting married, and the inspiration for Eve's pseudonym unexpectedly shows up on her doorstop, Eve's version of reality begins to collapse, unable to hold up under the pressure of the outside world, leaning in.