Heeding his brother's advisory that their father is mortally ill, a young Italian-American novelist, Giovi Martini, returns to his dysfunctional family home in Trenton, New Jersey after a 10-year hiatus. It's Christmas time and the Martinis are celebrating in typically grandiose style. But Giovi isn't feeling festive. There's a dark family secret buried under all that holiday bonhomie -- a secret that drove...

Heeding his brother's advisory that their father is mortally ill, a young Italian-American novelist, Giovi Martini, returns to his dysfunctional family home in Trenton, New Jersey after a 10-year hiatus. It's Christmas time and the Martinis are celebrating in typically grandiose style. But Giovi isn't feeling festive. There's a dark family secret buried under all that holiday bonhomie -- a secret that drove Giovi to leave in the first place. And the more he tries tease the thread out, the more the family's ball of lies unravels ... until all that's left is the truth.