Ever since her husband died in a car accident, Evvie Drake has barely ventured out of her painfully empty and painfully huge house. Everyone in the sleepy Maine town, even her best friend Andy, knows that grief is what consumes her, and Evvie leaves people with that belief.
Meanwhile, in New York, Dean Tenney, the big-field pitcher - Andy's childhood friend - is struggling with the most threatening nightmare of professionals, the "cramp": he is unable to hit the target with the ball. When the case is picked up by the media, Dean accepts Andy's invitation to travel to Maine and try to break the deadlock there.
When the man rents a room at Evvie's house, the pair make a deal: Dean won't ask about her late husband, and he won't ask Dean about his former sports career. The common roof brings the strange couple together night after night, and during the months spent with fun stories and laughter, a friendship is slowly woven between them, and maybe even something more. But is budding romance enough to put the past behind them? Perhaps, as in baseball, in life, there is always a chance to turn things around until the game is blown...