Laura Valiant is a successful art historian running her own business whose childless life is completely changed when her best friend, dying from cancer, begs her to become her daughter Natasha's guardian Unfortunately with the fifteen year old Natasha comes her father and grandmother to cope with Laura also discovers that her loving husband Douglas has been leading a secret life apart from her Faced with these difficulties she is forced to reassess her own life and sets out on a path towards a series of shattering truths