The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.

The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.

A devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.

A troubled young woman is encouraged by a teacher to enter a poetry contest.

In Los Angeles, a story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother, finds a body. Somehow, this discovery allows her to change. At the morgue, the sister of a girl missing for 15 years believes the body is that of her sister; this liberates her. An older woman, married to a man who pays her little attention, finds evidence in a storage unit; how will she handle it? The mother of the dead girl, who left home some years before, visits the last place her daughter lived and makes her own discoveries. Last, we flash back to the victim's final day.