In this harrowing drama based on a true story, a battered wife tries to break away from her husband and start afresh with her three children, only to be subjected to constant harassment and threats. There's something unsavoury about the way in which director Bethany Rooney dwells on the details of the abuse, and the action becomes increasingly melodramatic as Tracy Nelson involves sister Isabella Hoffmann in a desperate quest to keep her kids out of Neil Maffin's clutches.

Lisa's husband, Bill, abuses her. With her sister's encouragement, she takes their three kids and leaves her husband. Bill keeps interfering with Lisa's attempts at a new life. She gets an order of protection against him, but the police can't do anything else to help her. One night Bill breaks into Lisa's apartment and shoots her. As she dies in the hospital, Lisa asks her sister to promise to take care of her three children. The sister takes the kids into her home, but Bill is still on the loose, an ever present threat.