The Unforgiven is the story of two women who meet in their childhood, spend their lives together, and in an act that takes place, it forever changes the course of their lives and people in it. The story embodying the manuscript is the depiction of two young women of diverse ethnic and social backgrounds, brought together as young girls on summer vacation in their youth. The story chronicles the years of their lives spent together and apart and the love between them that becomes a blood bond, almost like that of natural sisters. Following the personal and professional lives of these two women, the story climaxes with an act that is precipitated upon one of them, and the unfolding of events that ensue as the other seeks an almost unrequited forgiveness for what she has done to her "sister."