A vengeful ex partner comes into town looking to settle an old score. Takes the daughter of a wealthy family keeps the wife as hostage. He'd kidnapped her only daughter. He'd held her prisoner. He'd taken her violently and now she'd belonged to him eternally. Kelly Reed is a naive and hopeless romantic housewife having a husband with a secret past. A past that means to harm her. Pushing her past her own insecurities Nathan, a unique con- artist/art thief, shows her that life itself is the art of living.