Oliver Ryan is handsome, successful, and charismatic. He’s a well-known children’s writer, and his wife Alice is a book illustrator. It’s almost a perfect couple. But one evening tragedy strikes their family: a cruel, unexpected surge of aggression from the husband sends Alice into a coma…
As we sink into the memories of the main characters, their acquaintances, and neighbors, unknown details of Oliver’s life surface. Layer by layer, the external shell falls away, and before us appears a monster whose soul holds only envy, deception, and contempt for people. Is this the result of a childhood trauma or an attempt to push away the guilt for a crime committed nearly forty years ago?