Claire Delecroix is living happily ever after with Aaron, her devoted, younger husband, until an unforeseen tragedy threatens their idyllic life. Aaron's estranged mother dies suddenly. Riddled with guilt, he lashes out at his wife, a tactic nurtured by the members of the cult Aaron's mother belonged to. As he falls under their spell, Claire feels the foundation of their marriage falter. Aching with loneliness, unwilling to give up either her marriage or herself, she tries to save both. Her efforts lead her into a sordid labyrinth of illicit sex, depravity, and hopelessness. Reaching bottom means losing everything, and Claire is teetering on the precipice. How much pain can two people in love inflict on each other, yet still cling with desperate hope to the ties that bind them? The answer lies somewhere between the heart and the shadows.