It is 2005 and Deb Travis, a park ranger in Death Valley, has spent the last thirty years grieving the death of her brother Ron.
What painful truth was Ron hiding from his housemates? What did they know about him but leave unsaid? Does shedding light in the darkest corners of the people we love bring us any closer to them? Or are the secrets we keep sometimes the only thing saving us?.
When Deb and Nikki reconnect, they embark on a search for answers but are met with even more questions.
Meanwhile, as Deb begins digging into the past, she searches for members of the housing collective and finds Nikki, who had spent her childhood in the House and had looked up to Ron as a surrogate father.
As she starts to explore what that might be, her life spirals out of control.
No such memory surfaces, but clearly something happened in the Haight-Ashbury House where she grew up.
Shadowy, disturbing images from Nikki\'s childhood emerge, leading her to wonder if she, like so many of her clients, suffered a trauma.
Across the country in Brooklyn, Nikki Gold, a child therapist, is triggered by a young client\'s case.
Three decades later, Deb receives a disturbing comment on her website, challenging whether Ron\'s death was truly a suicide and causing her to question everything she thought she knew.
The cause of death seemed evident but the reason was never clear.
No letter was left behind, only a journal packed with diatribes against the government, the Vietnam War, and his shame over an unnamed secret.
But according to police, he shot himself in the housing collective where he lived with five others in San Francisco\'s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
He was the light of her life, her mentor and protector, a beautiful young man with an easy laugh and a bright green thumb.
It is 2005 and Deb Travis, a park ranger in Death Valley, has spent the last thirty years grieving the death of her brother Ron
