Ten years after the assassination of her husband, Mary Todd Lincoln is pronounced insane by a sea of men, receiving a court-ordered commitment to Bellevue Place, a posh, private sanitarium in Illinois. There, Mary hoards trunks of her possessions and vials of poison, waging a great battle with John Wilkes Booth and other ghosts of the past while endlessly mourning the death of her husband and sons. Through any means necessary, Mary is determined to end her suffering-and her life.