On a cold January night, Sharon Lemke goes outside to admire the lunar eclipse and notices a little girl washing dishes in the window of a neighboring house. However, there are no children of that age in the Fleming family, and even if there were, why would they have to deal with the household at night? Sharon could put it out of her head, but when eighteen-year-old Nikita, a former named child, moves in with her, certain things in the neighbors' house seem suspicious to her as well. Social services, it seems, are in no hurry to intervene in the lives of the respectable Flemings, so the two women embark on their own investigation...