Kat Connors was 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 mother's absence. But as time passes, she begins to come to grips with how deeply her mother's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, Kat finders herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure and her own denial about the events surrounding it...