On the misted shores of Michigan’s Old Mission Peninsula, painter Clara Thompson seeks solitude after her husband’s death. But when she begins painting a house that should no longer stand, her art reveals a story buried for more than a century.

The story of Margaret Hensley, a vanished artist from 1907, begins to echo her own: a woman haunted by what she could not finish.

Into this quiet isolation steps Ethan Reed, Clara’s first love—now a widowed writer researching the peninsula’s folklore. Their reunion rekindles both tenderness and tension, as they navigate the fragile border between faith and doubt, logic and longing, truth and illusion.

As Clara’s paintings shift and her nights fill with whispers, the line between memory and haunting blurs. Is she uncovering Margaret’s story—or being drawn into it?

The Problem of Light is a luminous meditation on art, grief, and the ghosts that remain when love refuses to fade.