The Gold Coast

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One friend group. Two drownings. Ten years apart.

Violet has always existed at the periphery of a law school friend group known as the HU Crew as an insignificant significant other. Pregnant with their first child, Violet is accompanying her husband to the Chicago wedding weekend of a couple in the friend group when the best man—and Violet’s ex—is found dead the morning after the welcome party. His death spurs painful memories of their friend Lexi’s suicide following graduation ten years prior. Over the course of the weekend, parallels in the two drownings alter the lens of Lexi’s suicide, raising questions about her true cause of death. Violet unravels as she becomes convinced her husband was involved and will do anything to preserve his innocence, to protect the family she’s worked so hard to build.