Susannah Prue is a young, unmarried surrogate mother who, in the days before her delivery date, panics. Jumping into her car, she flees her Chicago home and a few days later pulls up to a bleak motel in the SouthwestÒa€”the Thunder Lodge. There, she encounters misfits, much like herself, who also carry secrets: the motelÒa€™s terse proprietors, their mentally disabled son, and a woman transporting her niece to the father sheÒa€™s never met. But when the parents of SusannahÒa€™s baby discover her whereabouts, she can no longer ignore the profound power she holds over their lives.