When she is assigned a story on the murder of a Hassidic woman, it strikes close to home. When she was a baby, Rebekah's mother left her and her father to go back home to her Hasidic community. Rebekah hasn't heard from her since. She is moved by the woman's brutal death and wants to find answers, even among the secretive Orthodox community. With help from an unlikely source, she ventures into the practices and secrets of her mother's world.