After her parents are murdered, 16-year-old Sharon retreats into an inner world, and becomes incapable of communication. While the police suspect that Sharon's hiding a guilty secret, her psychiatrist, Dr. Laurel O'Connor, is convinced that she's truly grief-stricken and traumatized... [More]

After her parents are murdered, 16-year-old Sharon retreats into an inner world, and becomes incapable of communication. While the police suspect that Sharon's hiding a guilty secret, her psychiatrist, Dr. Laurel O'Connor, is convinced that she's truly grief-stricken and traumatized by something in her past. And Dr. O'Connor knows about such things, because she's lived through some tragedies of her own, and these incidents start to resurface when she tries to help Sharon. [Less]