On a Virginia plantation, 1861, Beulah has spent months slipping arsenic into the master's food, each dose a prayer for the daughter sold away. Tonight, the final stew is ready. But when she learns her daughter is alive—a maid in the very house where the master will dine—Beulah must decide: finish her revenge and kill her own child's witness, or spare the tyrant and lose her last chance at freedom. Told in reverse, the story unfolds from the lid's lift to the dice's first roll, revealing every hand she played, every card she hid, and the single bet that sealed her fate.