In the course of a weekend's reunion between the two estranged women, a deeply buried and painful memory comes crashing into the present. Patsy (Wendy Crewson:The Santa Clause 2, Between Strangers, What Lies Beneath), a bright and popular beauty who married her high school sweetheart and became a farm wife and Francesca (Barbara Williams: Krippendorf's Tribe, Inventing the Abbotts), a sensitive ugly-duckling who fled her alcoholic mother and recreated herself to become a glamorous opera diva, were once childhood best friends. Together they are able to piece together the fragmented memories of a horrifying event that separated them as children and kept them apart for almost thirty years.