Elliot Svendson has returned to her childhood Minnesota home to lick her wounds after catching her professor husband between the legs of one of his grad students. Leaving behind a promising academic career, she finds herself raising her five-year-old son solo and working at a Talbots in the mall to make ends meet. Its there that she meets Madison Johnson, a young man with a penchant for skateboards, weed, and older women. What Elliot doesnt know is that Madison is only seventeen years old. When Madison and Elliots affair is exposed, the news sends shockwaves that will rock their lives and the lives of those around them.