Eva Khatchadourian is try to patch together her life follow the “incident”. Once a successful traveling author, she is coerce to take whatever job come her way, which of late is as a clerk in a traveling federal agency. She populate a lone life as people who cognize about her state of affairs openly eschew her, even to the point of violent action toward her. She, in bend, Foster that lone life because of the incident, the wake of which has turn her into a meek and frightened adult female. That incident involve her son Kevin Khatchadourian, who is now approach his 18th birthday. Eva and Kevin have got ever had a troubled human relationship, even when he was an baby. Whatever disturb he saw, John Hope Franklin, Eva’s self-satisfied hubby, merely impute it to Kevin be a typical boy. The incident may be see by both Kevin and Eva as his ultimate act in rebelliousness against his female parent.