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.
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.