The Question

A retired actress encounters a spirit who makes an unusual request when she returns to her childhood home by the sea. She relents to the creature's desire to paint her, and this sets both the woman and her elderly caretaker on a journey of self-discovery.

When a former movie star goes back to her seaside childhood house, she meets a ghost who asks her for something strange. The spirit wants to paint her picture, and she says yes. This choice sends both the woman and her old caretaker on a trip to learn about themselves.

Actress Mary Mannering abruptly leaves her starring role in a long-running Broadway play to return to her family’s seaside estate. At the old mansion, abandoned except for its faithful caretaker, Joshua, she hopes to recapture the sense of self years of acting have worn away. But the empty home seems to hold more ghosts than answers until a strange young man named Jamie brings the past to life.