English professor Frank Carroll is obsessed with two women. One, his wife Lydia, and the other, Mary Stone. The problem is Mary Stone is a poet who lived back in the 1930s and mysteriously disappeared without a trace. As the story goes on, she appears to have walked into a lake and drowned herself, but no one truly believes this story. When Frank and Lydia first meet, they are both interested in finding out what happened to Mary.
Frank and Lydia go to flea markets to search for anything that could have something to do with Mary\'s disappearance. Frank is willing to spend thousands of dollars buying seemingly insignificant old furniture, trinkets, and anything that may have any type of clue to prove that Mary is still alive. As the years go on, Frank becomes more and more erratic, going so far as to include their son Nicholas in everything... Lydia knows his must stop. One day, Nicholas does something that he hopes will get his family back together, but unfortunately it only causes bigger problems for his parents.
Local romance author Lydia
Carroll only knows one version of the MSW story: her
husband's. English professor Frank Carroll has been fixated
on the mystery of her disappearance for years, crafting a
narrative based on Mary's poetry and journals that insist
that Mary lived past that night in 1939.
As Frank's
behavior grows more erratic, Lydia sees that his interest in
Mary has evolved into an obsessionโone that threatens to
destroy the family they have built together. Lydia throws
herself into the mystery, hoping to solve it and bring peace
back to her home. But as Lydia begins investigating, her son
takes action with a plan of his own...one that will bring
the family to a breaking point and change Lydia's destiny
forever.
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