Three young sisters and their brother are orphaned in early childhood, and while three of them are found loving and protective homes, one suffers a life of neglect and poverty. Thirty years later they are reunited, but the elder sister has a shocking secret she needs to share. Drama based on a novel by Danielle Steel, starring Jaclyn Smith, Perry King, Colleen Dewhurst and Claudia Christian.

Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.