In a treasure-filled, decaying mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1950s, Baldwin Howell, her daughter Eulalia and her granddaughter Shelby have been keeping secrets and sorrows for years, all related to the mysterious disappearance of Shelby's father when she was a child.
After he went missing, Shelby had been stripped of his name, Korzeniowski, when her formidable grandmother took her to the courthouse to have it legally erased.
But Shelby has never given up her desire to know why her .