Gone Girl before Gone Girl was a thing. This is not your typical psychological thriller. This does not pit the manipulations of one's mind against that of another. Rather, it explores the depths to which a person can deceive themselves. John Wade: Magician, Soldier, Senator, Murderer? On the surface, John Wade is an upstanding public figure working his way up the ranks of state politics with his eyes set on the national stage. He is deeply in love with his wife. He believes in his ability to perform. Then, the newspapers are splashed with his involvement in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. His political ambitions come to a screeching halt and he and his wife Kathy retreat to the north woods of Minnesota to take stock of what their life looks like now that it has been derailed so dramatically. Then Kathy goes missing. In light of John's recently exposed past, it is easy to point the finger at him, but it's more difficult to pinpoint what made John who he is. Was it losing his father at an early age? Was it Vietnam? Was it losing the election? Was it the constant fear that he would lose Kathy's love? And how can one disentangle reality from supposition in the absence of a body or any other physical clue as to Kathy's whereabouts? John is left to mine his own memories for clues and to face his past that he did so much to bury.