When Samantha Dodd left home, it was for love. But 10 years later, she finds herself a single mother struggling to get by, and when she fails to shake a lingering illness, she must return to her hometown in Washington State. Accompanied by her illegitimate son, TJ, Samantha fears she'll never earn the approval of her domineering father, a state supreme court judge with a black-and-white view of the world.