In this fictional story, a widow learns to drive at sixty-two after decades of hearing that she is not capable. When she takes her late husband Richard's pickup out, its saved home address leads somewhere unfamiliar: the house of her estranged mother-in-law, Eleanor.
Richard told each woman that the other despised her. Over tea, they discover that neither version was true. Eleanor also produces evidence that Richard intercepted an invitation from a gallery interested in his wife's watercolor paintings and sent a refusal she never authorized.
The widow grieves both the husband she loved and the opportunities he kept from her. She shows their children the letters and begins rebuilding her relationship with Eleanor. Watercolor paper returns to her kitchen table, and the two women take drives together. They cannot recover the lost decades. What changes is who decides how the years ahead will be spent: the woman who now has her own hands on the wheel.