Archaeologist Maria Dark, who has traveled for many years in different countries, breaks up with her husband and returns home. On the coast of Connecticut, where she spent her childhood, she hopes to meet her family again and start over. But Maria could not imagine that she would have to re-get to know the people close to her, revealing dark family secrets... * * *Maria was shocked to see , as her sister Sophie beats her daughter mercilessly. It would seem that nothing could have shocked her more. But soon the irreparable happens. Having reached the last line, Sophie kills her husband in front of her children and runs over the now lifeless body with a car several times. Maria is trying to understand how Sophie, whose marriage everyone considered happy, could do this? Perhaps there is some explanation for such cruelty. But which one?