When Lucy Jarrett receives a message that her mother has been in an accident, she returns home from Japan, where she lives with her boyfriend. Upon returning home, she is lured back into her past by resurfaced childhood memories, family secrets, and a former boyfriend who was her first love. 

Kim Edwards's stunning family drama articulates every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever.