A struggling waitress, straddling the edge of drug addiction, gets a reality call when the daughter that she gave up at birth reappears.

Sisters Maggie and Lizzie move in with mom Peg’s new husband. Secrets and lies start immediately. Maggie cannot handle what follows and recruits a friend to help her plan to get out of town with her step father’s secrets. When Peg discovers that her daughter has run away, she now has to find Maggie fast but must come to terms with the dark secrets that led to Maggie’s fleeing and the secrets about her new husband.

A police detective follows a trail of evidence that eventually seems to lead to his trusted partner’s ex-con brother who he helped put in prison years ago.