To boost her college applications, seventeen-year-old Eloise, a loner girl struggling with her mental health, volunteers at a senior support center where she meets a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy who challenge her to step out of her comfort zone. Eloise Deane is grumpy, prefers to be alone, and is just slogging through senior year hoping to get accepted to USC and move to California. To score a scholarship she desperately needs volunteer hours, and is paired with LifeCare, a volunteer agency that offers social support to lonely seniors through phone calls and visits. Eloise is paired with Austin, the fellow volunteer who’s the sunshine to her cloudy day. As they work together to keep Marianne Landis— the mysterious former frontwoman of the 1970s band the Laundromats— company, something strange happens. She actually come to like Marianne and Austin! -- adapted from jacket