An intriguing psychological thriller. Jean seems to have it all-money, a husband, and a beautiful house, but she is not happy. To save her failing marriage, she decides to have a child, and becomes pregnant but loses the baby. As she still longs for a child she suggests insemination, which her husband furiously rejects. Jean falls into despair and takes an overdose of sleeping pills. Johnno takes her to a women's clinic where she is put on the psychiatric ward. Grace, her mother, is a divorced woman with a secret. She has abandoned Jean as a child, but now she wants to make amends. She and her daughter go to her house in Perth where Jean meets people with troubled pasts of their own. Johnno, who also has a secret, is losing money hand over fist and becoming desperate. He will do anything to get his hands on his wife's money.