Victoria Cross, a grad school dropout (or rather, flunk out), is struggling to help support her foster mother, Anna, the woman who sacrificed everything to make sure she had a better life. Feeling trapped in her bartending job at a popular night club, and a seemingly endless loop of bad decisions while the rest of the world moves on and up without her, Victoria is anxious to make something of herself. Then one night, a chance encounter with Tom, Russian criminal looking for a way out, alters the course of her life forever. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Northern Hemisphere, Katya is fighting a battle of her own…one that she’s sure to lose. Without knowing it, or each other, these two young women are about to be confronted with some truths about their own pasts before taking their respective destinies into their own hands.