"Paris, France: 1860s. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, a series of large-scale renovations will permanently alter the face of old Paris, molding it into a modern city. Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home. She stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue Childebert. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand, her beloved late husband. A poignant story of one woman's indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants, and secrets endure in the very walls.