After fifty-three years of marriage, Margaret’s husband coldly ends things, hides the $4.5 million marital home inside a shell company before filing, and threatens to cut her off from her grandchildren entirely. Rather than collapse under the loss, Margaret retreats to her sister’s Vermont farmhouse and eventually hires litigation attorney Priscilla Wren to trace the fraudulent property transfer, uncovering an email proving her husband deliberately moved the house out of the marital estate before filing for divorce.

Just as Margaret absorbs the full weight of that discovery, both her phone and Priscilla’s ring simultaneously from an unfamiliar Connecticut number. The caller reveals an urgent situation involving her husband, and whatever was found inside his study suggests the divorce Margaret assumed had already concluded the worst of her ordeal was, in fact, only the opening chapter.