A story within a story beginning with a small girl named Sage who lives in the Midwest. Sage becomes increasingly afraid of the dark and of sleeping in her own bed. She carries on conversations with her invisible friend who turns out to be a lonely spirit named Gabby Gillespie. Her family experiences some very unusual happenings in their old farmhouse and her grandmother, Tammy decides its time to reach out to him. Gabby's world unfolds and she is allowed to experience the turmoil and heartbreak that surrounded his life when he was alive. Communication between this world and the next is not at all unheard of and Tammy becomes flooded with ideas of how to get Gabby's story told. It all begins with an open mind...