Laura Farrington was living in a cozy apartment in Greenwich Village, N.Y. working as a set designer on Broadway when the pandemic arrived and shut down the entire city. With no means of income and little savings, she was forced to move to Jersey where she rented a cold-water flat in an old run-down tenement on Adams Street in Hoboken. Her days were lonely and sad until she rescued a lovely golden retriever named Charlie from the local animal shelter...