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 Talbot' s in the mall to make ends meet. It' s there that she meets Madison Johnson, a young man with a penchant for skateboards, weed, and older women. What Elliot doesn' t know is that Madison is only seventeen years old. When Madison and Elliot' s affair is exposed, the news sends shockwaves that will rock their lives and the lives of those around them.