Sarah Jane is a good cop. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself named the de facto sheriff of a rural town, investigating the mysterious disappearance of the sheriff whose shoes she's filling -and the even more mysterious realities of the life he was hiding from his own colleagues and closest friends.