After psychologist Bill Taggart begins working at the Maybrook Psychiatric Facility, it becomes apparent that what he learned in graduate school has ill-prepared him for the extraordinary cases that await him. His dysfunctional childhood and an estranged relationship with his troubled brother complicate his effectiveness as a clinician. When Bill crosses paths with Chuck, a war veteran many years his senior, a friendship blossoms out of their shared, if different, experience with loss. Chuck reveals a long-held secret involving his granddaughter Cassie when she was a teenager, sending Bill on a fact-finding mission. But rather than a clear-cut answer, Bill unexpectedly finds something much more complicated. An unexpected romance forms between Bill and Cassie, one born from a tragic event and a death shrouded in mystery.
When the truth comes out, Bill, Cassie, and Chuck are all left to answer the same questions:
What does it mean to help someone? And how far will they go to protect the ones they love? When the line between right and wrong is blurred, judgment lies in the
why of the beholder
.