From two different war-time eras in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Lena, a Scots-Irish-Cherokee farmgirl from a loving family who marries young, and Becca, a lost teen in a large, dysfunctional family, must escape their abusive homes to save themselves and their children, but face larger obstacles that threaten to ensnare them in vicious cycles of shame and secrecy. How do these two lives intersect? What will it take to break the cycle?