Jack is in mourning - for his dead wife, his once glittering literary career, and the fact that he is growing older and more alone by the second.

He moves into a house on the edge of a quiet country town with nothing but a lone magpie on the lawn for company and the odd phone call from his ageing mother.

 

It has been 2 years since the passing of his wife Lara, - but the memories follow him, and his agoraphobia doesn't help.

Despite reservations Jack turns to online dating for companionship - not realising that he is contacting the ghost of the former inhabitant of his new home.

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She goes by the name of Magpie...

 

Jack also makes contact with Sally, a woman in the real world with tragic secrets of her own - along with a desperate need for connection.

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Magpie sets about sabotaging the emerging romance, sending Jacks sanity spiralling.

Jack must overcome his terror of the spectral Magpie - thereby setting them both free, and also for he and Sally to eventually embrace a future of promise neither of them could ever have imagined.