In 1982 in Lake Orion, MI, 27-year-old young divorcee Cindy Thompson reconnects with her high school sweetheart and, by 1983, she gets pregnant with his child. But someone wants to snuff out the couple's happiness, and Cindy's life.

In 2005, 23-year-old Suzy Goulart is just getting by like everybody else in the scrappy Pleasant View apartment complex in Fall River, MA, where little dramas between friends and lovers add up to Suzy's fiery murder.