To the casual outsider, Angela Anderson has the world by a string. Yet behind the persona of a successful, up-and-coming reporter for a major New York City daily, lurks a haunting past tainted by a dysfunctional upbringing entrenched with alcoholism. Acting on a tip, the newspaper assigns her a story with Pulitzer potential, a level of recognition she had coveted since childhood. Ironically, it is the Association for Alcoholics Anonymous Chapters she ends up investigating in her quest for that brass ring. Angela Anderson soon finds herself a long way from her roots in rural Athens, Ohio, as she is thrust into a sadistic world laced with pornography, deceit, and deadly consequences.