The face Esme Waters presents to the world is not the face she sees in the mirror. Even her three daughters don't know the truth behind her careful smile. A chance meeting with a fascinating psychiatrist opens the first crack in Esme's mind, and suddenly the past is pursuing her. Once again she is running, as she has always run, from the truth of what she lost twenty years ago. While her children are falling in love, learning about loyalty and rebelling against the rules, Esme discovers that sometimes the walls you build for protection need to come tumbling down.