Funeral director Annie Proudfoot falls in love with freelance writer Lisa Cannon, but Annie's Navajo grandfather Joe has trouble coming to terms with the fact that his granddaughter is a lesbian. When Joe's friend Eldon Farney goes missing near Taos, New Mexico, the two women find themselves investigating a string of murders stretching back more than thirty years, and it's not at all clear whether the answers they seek are found in the physical realm or the spirit world.