Baltimore, 1966. When Maddie Schwartz, having recently left her husband of over 20 years, helps Baltimore police find a murdered girl, her assistance leads to a job at the cityโs afternoon newspaper. Working at the newspaper offers Maddie the opportunity to make her name, and she has found just the story to do it: a missing woman whose body was discovered in the a city park lake. Cleo Sherwood was a young African-American woman. No one seems to know or care why she was killed except Maddie โ and the dead woman herself. Maddieโs going to find the truth about Cleoโs life and death. Cleoโs ghost, privy to Maddieโs poking and prying, wants to be left alone.