Labor Day

Labor Day 1966 arrives as a hinge in Maddie Schwartz's life, the holiday on which her clandestine affair with Ferdie Platt and her nascent career as a reporter collide. The day begins in the private, heated intimacy of their relationship, but it ends with Ferdie handing her the story that will break the case of Cleo Sherwood's murder. It is a moment of transition, where the sensual escape Maddie has built with Ferdie gives way to the public, professional world she has been trying to enter, and where a tip born of gossip becomes the key to a mystery that has haunted Baltimore.