Joe Calley was a decorated WWII hero. Every year he marched in the Memorial Day parade in his hometown of Downers Grove, Iowa. The parade led to the town’s cemetery where Joe would say a prayer honoring the war dead and then retreat to a dark room in the back of his house. Blinds drawn and door shut, he would spend the rest of the day in seclusion.

Benjamin Calley had been estranged from his father, Joe, ever since his day in college. Now living in Chicago, Ben cannot get past the haunting memory of his father marching in the parade and closing himself off from the world. Ben decides this Memorial Day will be different. He determines he will get past the door of seclusion and find out the answer to the mystery of Memorial Day. Yet, Ben is not prepared for what he will find on the other side of that door.