A young girl returns to her hometown in search of her father, and gradually her childhood memories return; a childhood with incest and violence.

Caroline Boyle returns to her childhood home in Northern California, drawn there by a cryptic letter from her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was a child. Caroline's frosty mother is less than cordial at her daughter's arrival but her step-father welcomes her kindly.—alfiehitchie