Joshua Steadman, the mayor of a small town on the outskirts of Washington DC, is on the fast track to the United States Senate. He has all the makings of a voter-friendly politician. He's handsome, charismatic, and has the perfect first lady who is more popular than him. Unfortunately for the mayor, his wife becomes sick and, on the eve of her death, comes clean about a disturbing lie she told him about his first love and sexual obsession, the enigmatic Rose Umbra. The truth changes everything he thought he knew about his wife and resurrects his obsession that died the day his wife told him the lie. Now his enigmatic ghost from his past haunts his every move and disrupts all his big plans he made with his wife's replacement.