Everywhere the Light Touches

Spring, 1932. When her best friend and employer of over four decades commits suicide, consummate secretary Alice Hutchison faces grave doubts about the true nature of her beloved mentor, their unconventional friendship, and, graver still, about the nature of her own choices. Forced to question the value of their shared life’s work in light of the private battles they fought, the fiercely private Alice explores her deepest fears and tenderest recollections in a series of letters addressed to the deceased, the eccentric father of modern photography and founder of Kodak, George Eastman. Systematically interrogating the physical evidence of ‘the work’—old photographs, court subpoenas, the letterpresses correspondence she maintained with such care—she will pit material against memory, haunted by the context that hovers out of frame. With the upcoming memorial service looming every nearer, she must confront the public face of the man she loved and find a way to reconcile it with the one she knew. But can she reconcile the life she envisioned for herself with the one she actually lived?