For eighteen years the Hartes & the Golds have lived next door to each other sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents & children alike are best friends
- so it's no surprise that in high school Chris & Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born. When the midnight calls come in from the hospital no one is prepared for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head as part of an apparent suicide pact. The gun holds a single unspent bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself but a local detective has doubts. & the Hartes & Golds in a single terrifying moment must face every parent's worst fear: do we ever really know our children at all?