Retired professor Andrew Lachlan has returned to his family home on a lake in central Georgia to die.
Lachlan also finds Callie McKenzie, a woman he loved years earlier, and they soon begin to see in each other reflections.
But a young country boy, Willie Sullivan, disrupts Lachlan\'s search for order and rekindles memories he thought long dead.
Having taught all his life, he is ready for solitude.
And yet he has never felt so alive, so ready to learn about the natural world around him.
Retired professor Andrew Lachlan has returned to his family home on a lake in central Georgia to die