A wealthy woman stumbles on her husband's secret criminal activities and discovers they are heavily in debt, and when he supposedly disappears at sea she is first in the frame for his alleged murder. Crime drama, starring Marlo Thomas, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Brett Cullen and Emma Barclay.

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.