After Lise Branson's suicide, her daughter Diny tries to uncover the many layers of her mother's life. Lise and her family were Jews who fled Vienna and the Nazis in 1931 and moved to a townon the Hudson River. She married, and had what seemed a rich and satisfying life. But with the death of her first child, her life began to disintegrate and her seemingly exemplary life reveals a darker and more complex side.
