Ted Kennedy’s life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.

Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free.

At the age of six years, Suzanne Hollander saw her mother kill her father. Twenty-five years later, she is a professor of psychology and lives in fear of becoming a…