When Katie and Greg Carlyle invited Greg's estranged daughter to live with them, they had no idea that they would be inviting jealousy, violence, and deceit into their home to wreak havoc on their perfect life.
Estranged fraternal twins Allen and Allie Foster are reunited by their mother's death, and return to their strange hometown of Obelisk Bay to attend to her lingering matters. Allen, struggling to resolve his latest novel, is enticed by Allie to take a powerful psychotropic drug she calls "the lotus." As if a muse were speaking through him, Allen begins recounting the winding story of a young woman's travels decades earlier. Her life in some ways parallels their own, as she journeys into the desert in search of a statue her own deceased mother left her with an old photograph of. The two lives begin to cross over in unexpected ways, and it becomes apparent that a dark secret at the heart of their old home has far broader ramifications than they could have possibly imagined.
Xavier tem agora 40 anos. Assim como Wendy, Isabelle e Martine. Aos 40 anos você deve levar uma vida mais estável do que com 20 anos, mas não é o que acontece com Xavier. Ele progrediu em alguns aspectos, tornou-se escritor... mas no dia-a-dia sua vida está longe de estar estabilizada. Pior ainda é quando sua ex-mulher Wendy, mãe de seus 2 filhos, muda-se para Nova York com as crianças. Xavier não consegue ficar longe delas, então decide que se mudará também. Não demora muito para que os problemas comecem.
