This is a twisty tale centered on university student Rosemary Cooke, whose complex and unusual upbringing is marred by the unexpected disappearance of a "twin sister" at the age of 5.
In 1960s Baltimore, an unsolved murder pushes housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist and sets her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood, a hard-working woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a passionate commitment to advancing Baltimore's Black progressive agenda.