On August 2nd, 1983, Leslie Holmberg was on her way home from work when a man named Robert Bergeron pulled her into an alleyway and viciously raped her. She was found and brought to the hospital, where she slipped into a coma. Upon waking up from it two weeks later, she was told that the rapist had impregnated her. Leslie was given two options: abort the baby or raise her unborn child. She chose the latter and nine months later, on April 25th, 1984, Leslie gave birth to a baby girl...
Fast forward twenty-nine years later. It's 2013, and Sandra Allison Holmberg is a detective for the Manhattan PD. Her mother, Leslie Holmberg, resides in a nursing home in Buffalo, New York, ever since she awoke from her coma all those years ago. Sandra is happy, but it all changes when her mother is murdered in her room at the nursing home. And the main suspect is a man named Robert Bergeron...
Drawn back into the past her mother refused to talk about, Sandra plays a dangerous game in order to find her father and finally make him pay for his actions. Too bad Sandra has no idea what she's getting into...
Helen's parents demand that she marry the man they've chosen for her or be disowned. She chooses to be disowned. But that isn't good enough for them. They make sure that she either doesn't get jobs or they make sure that she gets fired from them. She loses her apartment and all her things do to them. They are sure that she'll give in and marry the man they've chosen rather than live on the streets.
But then again, they've never really paid much attention to their daughter unless they wanted something from her.
Helen would rather live on the streets and eat out of garbage dumpsters then return to her parents and marry the man that would make her life a living hell. At least on the streets she's free. She might starve or freeze to death but she'll be free.
Then one day three men come after her, intent on forcing her and beating her for what little she has.
Before one of them does more than grab her arm the three are gone. Helen looks down and finds them on the ground with their hearts torn out of the bodies.
She looks at the person that did that in horror but then her sight goes black.