Los Angelena Lulu Rosetti, a thirty-three year old word processor and tarot reader, is urgently summoned by her mother to her New Jersey childhood home to help Lulu's only sibling, a younger sister, recover from a vitamin-induced suicide attempt. Over the course of Lulu's one week stay with her too-close family, she's sure that moving to California was the right thing to do. She's as certain about this as much as she's certain that terminating her pregnancy twelve years ago was the right thing to do though she obsessively wonders about her aborted fetus.