Escaping the narrow, wealthy life she led in Manhattan, Zoe Finney moves her family to a Brooklyn neighborhood where working-class families have lived for generations. She hopes the change will reinvigorate her profoundly depressed husband and provide a happy place for her daughter. But Zoe"s arrival alters the lives around her, expecially the handsome schoolteacher next door, Keevan O"Connor, who is deeply drawn to her.