Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, a beautiful, enigmatic, and haunted woman, disappears. Having lived for so long in a stifled, emotionally repressed household and head over heels in love for the first time, Kat barely registers her mother's absence. But as time passes, she begins to come to grips with how deeply her mother's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, Kat finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it