Teen pregnancy and adoption in a Sixties suburb of Washington, D.C. when a good girl went away for a while to protect her reputation. How a lie can alter a life. The daughter of the Senate Majority Leader struggles with guilt over the drowning of her mother and brother behind their family home at Lake Barcroft. Beck is expected to embody virtue and maintain a pristine reputation, but yearns for a boyfriend, to be a normal girl. Her exploration of teenage independence with a garage band boyfriend ends in disaster and lies to protect her father.