Laura y Martin estuvieron casados durante cuatro años y parecían una pareja perfecta. Sin embargo, la realidad era muy distinta: Martin resultó ser un marido obsesivo y brutal que la maltrataba continuamente. La situación llegó a ser tan insostenible que Laura decidió simular su muerte para librarse de él y empezar una nueva vida con una nueva identidad. Sin embargo, cuando él se da cuenta del engaño, decide perseguirla para vengarse.

A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in other words, she did what she wanted and didn't care what anyone else thought about it) is finally released to the custody of her family, consisting of her grand-nephew and his family. At first she keeps a self-imposed distance from the relatives, but she soon finds herself coming around to her nephew's wife, a free spirit who is under the thumb of her cold and controlling husband

Despite initially starting out in wedded bliss, devoted wife Candice and her manipulative husband, Ken, end up at odds, so much so that he hires a hitman to kill her and their unborn child. Candice finds herself embroiled in the fight of her life.