Jody Maclain's daughter Kendall has never known she was the product of one humiliating sexual experience that drove her father out of the closet and her mother into a lifetime of self-recrimination. When Jody's former lover Keith dies unexpectedly, she is forced to reevaluate the choices she made from Kendall's conception to whether to renege on her promise to tell her daughter of her true parentage. When the latter choice is made for her, the consequences threaten to destroy all that she loves.