Rolanda Burns from Portland, Maine works at the Portland Art Museum. She just lost her dad from cancer and unbeknownst to him, his wife fooled around while he was deathly ill. Rolanda wonders if she is her real mother taking up with a wicked man that wants to run Rolanda's life when the dad is gone. She has a art curator intersted in her named Sheil Frantz and holds many untold secrets from her to her dismay. Feeling her situation is impossible, she eventually takes off for Fredericton, New Brunswick to work in a different art museum with her pal Beverly.