Abigail Schiller lives a seemingly normal childhood in a rural community in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother, Sam, vanishes at the age of seventeen, fleeing their father's rigid rules of masculinity and the violence their mother denies. Finally, thirty years old and expecting a child of her own, Abby is determined to retrace her lost sibling's dark descent - embarking upon an emotional journey that will test the strength of her spirit, and contradict everything, she once believed about her family and herself.