Jules recently cashed out of a start-up company, and to keep busy, he's been writing stories about the better times from his past. He reconnects with Constance, an old flame from those days. She needs his help which takes him down a dark and mysterious road.

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

A young girl tries to connect with her estranged father who runs the town's local funeral home.

A young girl tries to connect with her estranged father who runs the town's local funeral home.