Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home
mom Samantha Friedman finds that her days have been reduced
to errands, car pools and suburban gossip. What was an easy
decision for Sam years ago has become a nagging awareness
that this life was her choice. Now she deals with a
husband who shows up for dinner but is too preoccupied for
conversation, and a daughter swathed in black clothing and
Goth makeup who won't talk at all.
Believing she's an
adopted mistake, seventeen-year-old Cammy has fallen into
sex and drugs and pours herself into a journal filled with
poetry and pain. On parallel paths, mother and daughter
indulge in desperate, furtive escapismβfor Sam, a heady
affair with her supposed soul mate, fueled by clandestine
coffee dates and the desire to feel something; for
Cammy, a secretive search for her birth mother punctuated by
pills, pot and the need to feel absolutely nothing.