When Minerva Day's grandson turns up missing at a Christmas carnival, her daughter accuses Minerva of his murder. Could she have done such a thing? Had she forgotten to take her medicine? The unnerving thought haunts Minerva, just like it did four years earlier when her husband died of a mysterious illness. Then Walter, a new love, brings balance into Minerva's life. But it is short-lived-her daughter won't let go of the nagging suspicions that her mother is guilty of the most horrendous of crimes.