Beatrice "GiGi Bea" Holloway is a former B-movie scream queen in her early eighties, presiding over a Burbank house full of faded posters and a piano nobody plays. Her life is small, orderly, and lightly ridiculous — until her estranged grandson and his wife are killed, and their daughters arrive on her doorstep.

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Nineteen-year-old Eliana is practical and fiercely protective; fifteen-year-old Meekah processes everything through music. Beatrice hasn't seen them since they were babies. She also didn't know they were Black — one of several things her grandson chose not to tell her.

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What follows is the awkward, funny, often painful work of three people learning to live in the same house: Eliana trusting nothing she can't verify, Meekah pouring her grief into a song for her parents, and Beatrice — a woman who has spent a lifetime performing warmth — finding out whether she can actually deliver it.​