A young girl lives with her mother, father, and brother in Florida. One day, she and her brother go out to fish, and meet a girl in purple rain boots. When they try to steal her tackle box, the sister slices her thumb open on a hook. They catch a fish and bring it home. Their mother guts the fish, but then argues with their father and cries. Their parents explain that the girl will go with their mother, and the brother will go with their father for a long trip. Many years later, the girl, now a woman, lives in Baltimore and works as a store manager. She calls her father once a year, but hasn't heard from her brother since that day in Florida. She thinks about the girl with the purple rain boots incessantly. She doesn't know that the girl died a few years ago after a fall from a porch. The woman has both a boyfriend and girlfriend, but she lives alone. On her birthday, her phone rings and she talks to her brother for the first time in two decades. She asks him about the girl in the purple rain boots but he doesn't remember her. In fact, he remembers much of that last day differently. The woman is devastated that she could have remembered it wrong.