Grab a cup of your favorite coffee beverage and take a seat at the Trier, a funky coffee house in mid-eighties Dayton, where you find humor, romance, and possibly a ghost, but no traces of cell phones, laptops or logo sirens.

It's a normal Tuesday and the Trierlings are busy writing novels, being cast in a play, finding, and trying to forget romance. The coffee is great, but the service not so much. They have no idea that their favorite coffee house is about to be sold by its disinterested owner. That is just the start of the week.

Wednesday night the closing barista hears weird noises in the one hundred year old building that has housed the Trier for a decade.  Talk of the Century ghost circulates among the regulars as the day barista and his band, Tofaco, are planning to perform on Saturday night. 

On Thursday, Trier regular and wanna be novelist, Jay Altonstreet is volunteered by his friend Philpatrick to stay with the beautiful closing barista Priya, in order to help find the source of the noises. He thinks he finds love instead. Too bad since his writing has just gotten him an internship in a different city. 

On Saturday Philpatrick discovers the plan to completely alter the slowly gentrifying neighborhood around the Trier. But the show, and the Trier must go on, ghost or not. Or will it? The fate of the Trier rests in the hand of the budding coffee expert, Jay, who discovers the secret of the trier, the roaster’s tool that hangs on the wall behind the espresso machine. Holding it healed his burned hand, but what is its real power? His reading on the fascinating eight hundred year old history of coffee may just be the key.

Fans of their local coffee house will enjoy the trials and tribulations during a week at the Trier, while learning a thing or two about the history of coffee along the way.