On the day Deena Rys finally comes out to her family, her older sister Mandy is seen jumping from a cliff. Their estranged father has always called them "bad apples" and Mandy was the baddest of them all. Then Deena starts to receive letters-- from Mandy. They tell of a curse, handed down to the Rys women for generations. Now Deena is on a cross-country quest to heal their family's rotten past, and save her sister. Deena's desperate, cross-country search for her beloved sister--guided only by the notes that mysteriously appear at each destination, leading her to former Magdalene laundry sites and more--is a love letter to women and a heartbreaking cathartic journey. -- Adapted from jacket.