In 1980, Carl Fletcher, a wealthy businessman, was kidnapped, brutalized, and ransomed before being safely returned to his family. Money saved them then, but nearly forty years later, its lingering effects have left the Fletchers anything but whole.
Carl obsesses over his past trauma in secret, while his wife, Ruth, sacrifices her dreams to guard his fragile emotions. Their adult children fare no better: Nathan lives paralyzed by fear, Beamer numbs his terror with indulgence, and Jenny, desperate to prove she’s unaffected, becomes a reflection of the very dysfunction she rejects.
When the family fortune collapses, the Fletchers must confront how their wealth has both protected and imprisoned them. In their fight for survival, will they find freedom—or will their past destroy them for good?
