A multi-generational tale of womanhood, family, loyalty, and identity. Siblings Byron and Benny have been estranged for 8 years, but are brought back together when their mother, Eleanor Bennett, dies. Eleanor has left them with a recording that tells her children the truth of where she came from, a secret she has kept her whole life.

Born Covey Lyncook to a mother who left her at age 10 and a father who became an alcoholic, Eleanor (Covey) was married off to the local gang tyrant in exchange for her father’s life. At the wedding, her groom collapsed and died, and Covey fled the island, placing her as the number 1 suspect for the murder. The story follows Covey as she tries to find a place for herself in this new world, while losing hold of her identity as she hides from her past. 

The recording reveals to Byron and Benny the trials their mother experienced, the places she came from, the people she loved, unravelling parts of her identity she’d kept hidden for decades. How much of what she has kept hidden is part of Byron and Benny’s identity, if they never knew it existed? How much of their identity comes from their heritage, their lineage, their ethnicity, and how much of it comes from the things they’ve always known?