Set in the late 1940s America. Laura Winters is a newly graduated psychiatrist who travels to New York City to start her new life and career. Angelina Covali is a mother and a psychiatric nurse living in New York City. However, these women have dark secrets. Laura is a white-passing coloured woman. Angelina is stuck in an unhappy marriage. Both women prefer women. A novel exploring the struggles of Laura and Angelina as they fight for their identity and love from the vicious claws of their post-World War II patriarchal society. Will these women succeed or succumb to the patriarchal expectations?