Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
Keywords: abortion , ambiguity , ambiguous , ambivalent , art , art-exhibition , based-on-novel-or-book , cancer , carjacking , cheating , ex-husband-ex-wife-relationship , flashback , hostage , insomnia , murder , novelist , overbearing-mother , parent-child-relationship , revenge , sexual-assault , story-within-the-story , writer , cowardice , rape-and-murder