Kat connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, a beautiful, enigmatic, and haunted woman, disappears - just as kat is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality.
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 mothers absence.
but as time passes, she begins to come to grips with how deeply her mothers disappearance has affected her.
returning home on a break from college, kat finds herself confronted with the truth about her mothers departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it.