On Thanksgiving Day 1966, the disappearance of a young girl swept Baltimore, and the lives of two women collided fatally.Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) is a Jewish housewife trying to get rid of her secret past and become an investigative reporter again; Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram) isA mother who struggled to provide for her family while working her way up the political ladder in a black Baltimore neighborhood.At first, their disparate lives seem parallel, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo's puzzling death, a rift opens, putting everyone around them in danger.