In the 1990s, in the small river town of Waketon, Illinois, during the crisp, sunny, colorful, warm days of Indian Summer, as the bright yellow and red-brown leaves begin to fall to the ground, a young woman grieves over the recent accidental death of her young daughter. She cannot be consoled, for she does not regard her daughter's death as an accident, and against her better judgment secretly plots against the neighbor who killed her. Her husband, a local carpenter entrenched in his own anguish over their deceased daughter, while trying to lift his wife out of the emotional quagmire she has...