Sedgwick’s character is a woman who flees for her life from an abusive husband and begins anew in Los Angeles with a new man and a new family. The audience needs to question her ethics as she left her two daughters behind and does not look back until it may be too late. Can we judge a woman in her situation? What kind of toll does consistent physical beatings take and is there really no correct response?

This is act one. Act two is her return to these daughters and a custody battle to reaffirm herself as their mother. You see, while she was away, and after the L.A.. beau dies, the abusive husband is sick and dying so the girls have been living with their grandmother, who speaks poison of their mother. Convoluted stuff, and really for naught. The whole affair is an indie version of a Lifetime television movie. Kyra’s performance is brave and honest, but the story does not hold one’s attention. The most intriguing element of this tale is the tensions between mother and daughters, yet the film ends as soon as these relationships begin to open up and become explored.