A poor single mother reports her daughter missing then accuses her rich boyfriend of murder and a gruesome cover-up while he insists her daughter is missing and she’s to blame.

SYNOPSIS:

MARY FISHER, 25, bears scars from life with a drug addicted mother and is eager to make a better life for herself and her daughter, HOLLY, 5. Mary ignores her grandmother’s warnings about DOCTOR WALTER ANDERSON, 35, damaged goods from life with a domineering father, sympathizes with him and believes they can be happy. When efforts to include Mary’s meddling grandmother in their new life fail, Mary and Holly move in with Walt who is determined to cut off his rival and take control of Mary and Holly.

Mary overlooks Walt’s temper and his drinking until it triggers an incident that leaves Holly with minor injuries. Mary is mad as hell, but she's also pregnant with his child. Walt insists he’ll get help, marry her and adopt Holly. While deciding what to do, Mary bribes Holly so she won’t tell on Walt when she talks to her great-grandmother on the phone. Walt finds out about the call and his punishment ends in Holly’s murder.

Mary is drugged and forced into a gruesome cover-up hatched by Walt's rich, famous father until she finally unravels the truth as she remembers it . She’s admitted to a psychiatric ward where she has a miscarriage. Upon her release, Mary testifies at Walt's trial. Walt confesses to everything on the stand without implicating his father who is eventually charged while Mary escapes prosecution.

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