In the historic, tight-knit town of Savannah, reputation is everything, and the prominent Vance family guards theirs like Holy Scripture. Newly married into this world of rigid etiquette and polite Southern grace, Sarah finds herself suffocated by the quiet expectations of her safe, predictable life.

In the cramped, Lemon Pledge-scented halls of the Williams’ house, sisters Chloe and Sophie are suffocating. Under the watchful, cynical eye of their mother—a woman who treats her daughters' flaws like trophies to be displayed to the neighbors—the girls are "locked down" by a never-ending cycle of domestic drudgery and quiet resentment.