In a New York park on March 10, 2014, Addie is jolted awake when a dog barrels up to her, licking her face and trying for her paper bag of muffins. She throws the Frisbee back to the unseen owner, shivers as the brief warmth fades, and leaves the park wishing she had stolen warmer clothes.

On the way toward Cobble Hill, Addie pauses to listen to a street violinist whose melody pulls her through memories of other cities and years. When the song ends, Addie drops her remaining change into the open case and continues on, feeling both lighter and more full.

At a movie theater, Addie lies to get past staff by claiming she left her purse in theater three. She finds an overturned popcorn bucket in an emptying auditorium, then persuades the concession worker to charge her only the refill cost; he covers it entirely, blushing at her attention. Addie watches a film and revels in how movies let her disappear into someone else’s life, but the relief collapses into a heavy return to herself when the credits roll.

Near sunset, Addie returns to Fred’s outdoor book table, quietly slips Grimm’s back into the stacks, and leaves him a chocolate-chip muffin, the only kind he likes. Fred barely looks up, absorbed in his book, while Addie heads on into the coldening evening.

At the Alloway bar, Addie stalls outside with a borrowed cigarette, fighting the pull of a familiar pattern. Inside, in her mind, she watches Toby play and hears the song they built together—something he can keep even if he can never remember her—then the vision breaks. Addie realizes she has never gone in, refuses the open door, and walks away, deciding the brief high is not worth the inevitable crash.