In the small town of Mockmay, word travels fast that Maggie is back in town. When she arrives, she enacts a drunken clause she and Chalk signed off on years ago, and just like that, Chalk is a married man.
As Maggie tries to build a marriage with him, Chalk's thoughts turn more and more to the mysterious physicist who enchanted him the day they met over the coffee shop counter. Muriel crosses his path every day, and soon she shows that she's been thinking about him, too.
Their affair could lead to many things. Will murder be one of them?