Massachusetts, 1964: The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop. Trapped between looking after her alcoholic father and her tedious job as a secretary at a boys' prison, she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. Then everything changes in an instant. When the charismatic Rebecca Saint John takes up the post of director of education at the prison, Eileen is enchanted. But soon her adoration of Rebecca will pull her into a terrible crime...
