Just graduated from university, Esther's post-graduate plans include: returning to her parents' house, hanging out with Jack (her unrequited school crush) and re-reading her favourite children's books. Her parents have other ideas and volunteer her to be a nanny for their neighbours, the Browns. It's a tricky assignment: six months earlier, their youngest child had died. But Esther finds herself falling in love with the surviving daughter May and soon becomes entangled in family politics, forcing her to finally address who she really is...