Five daughters learn to cope with daily beatings, berating, and starvation at the hands of their mentally ill mother, but they carry deep scares into adulthood.

When their mother is discovered bludgeoned to death they are the only suspects.

Eva, the oldest, is the nurturer who lives in close proximity to her mother and is well past trying to act as if everything is normal. Hedy is a powerful advertising executive who has run from her past by working eighty hour weeks and hiding the fact she lives with a woman. Lily copes by ignoring everything-her childhood, her marriage, and her...