Lynette is a suburban housewife with a terrible secret. Greeting her children for her birthday, she has a chance to recognize her children's faults and her own shortcomings and to reach out. She will tell them about her involvement with a historic event over thirty years earlier. Lynette's inner and outer life have been out of synch, and her final act cracks the surface forever, making it possible for Lynette to unearth her buried self at last.