A recently deceased musician (Casey Affleck) returns as a ghost — draped in a white sheet with two cut-out eyes — to haunt the suburban house he shared with his grieving partner (Rooney Mara). He watches over her, unable to communicate, while time stretches and compresses around him in ways the living cannot perceive. David Lowery's profoundly moving meditation on grief, memory, and the passage of time is one of the most quietly devastating films in recent American cinema — a ghost story in the truest sense, told with radical simplicity and enormous emotional intelligence.