Every fifteen years, serious events occur in the life of the Sloukem family. At the age of fifteen, Virginia, nicknamed the Boss, gave birth to Lisa; after another fifteen years, Lisa also gave birth to a daughter, and after another fifteen, Mosie, the youngest of the Sloukhams, witnessed how a grave was found in the courtyard of their house, where a chest with children's bones rested. Mozi decides to find out who and why made a cemetery out of their cozy yard. The discoveries she makes could destroy the lives of all three women, but her forty-five-year-old grandmother is ready to do anything to protect her daughter and granddaughter from the secrets of the past. A sometimes funny, sometimes frightening dramatic novel about strong and smart women making fatal mistakes, the terrible consequences of which they have to overcome. A tense and tragic story with an unexpectedly bright and optimistic ending.