In 1979, after suffering the loss of her dear friend and sister-in-law, Kat Hunter begins to question everything about her traditional life. With a backdrop of the 1970s feminist movement, Kat decides the only way she can discover who she was meant to be is to leave her husband and her three young daughters. She discovers that the decision has unintended outcomes and leads her down an unexpected path until she confronts her incomplete grief.
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