As a young girl, Becky grows up in the shadow of her father’s PTSD; she wants to know what is wrong but knows not to ask. Her father won’t talk about the war, but is haunted by his past. At 89, he breaks seventy years of silence, revealing the extent of the trauma he’s endured. Because his story is incomplete without hers, and hers is inconceivable without his, Ellis offers both, as well as their year-long aching conversation marked by moments of redeeming grace.