On an otherwise typical Monday morning, a middle-aged writer enters her living room and finds a woman standing by her fig tree. The woman is wearing a blue trench coat, white sneakers, and a white shawl over her hair. She is holding a purse and a suitcase. She is the Virgin Mary - and after 2000 years of petition, adoration, and traveling, she's in need of a little R & R. Invited in for lunch, Mary decides to stay for one week, during which an unlikely friendship develops