Made a year before her sitcom success in Caroline in the City, this TV movie stars Lea Thompson as a wife who is so loyal to her abusive husband (James Marshall of Twin Peaks fame) that she agrees to share the blame for a murder he has committed. If that isn't sensational enough, the drama then switches to her bid to retain custody of her daughter and her sister's determination to leak a dark family secret to secure her release. This outlandish melodrama is so full of unlikely events and resistible characters that it could only have been based on a true story.

Despite her parents' misgivings, Brianne marries Clay, and the couple soon have a daughter. It's then that Clay begins to show the first signs that he's unhinged. When he sees Brianne innocently talking to a man, Clay shoots him dead. At first, Brianne believes that her love for her husband can prevail. But when authorities threaten to take away custody of her daughter, she learns a horrible truth about her past.