It’s Anna Klettmann’s 44th birthday, and the family of five is having cake for breakfast and looking forward to a fun day. But the day becomes something none of them ever imagined, or ever could have. By day’s end, the happy family is utterly and irrevocably destroyed by a horrific act. There is no way to avoid facing the secrets of the past, so long and painstakingly suppressed, and it is time to deal with their impact on the present.