The story of one woman's desire to be a mother, and the terrible consequences of maternal indifference.

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When a former child patient asks retired forensic psychiatrist Corine Alexander for help, she is grateful for the distraction from her own grief.

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Hopeful that she will come to understand why the seemingly well-balanced teenager chose to attack her mother with a knife, Corine is disheartened by her patient's unwillingness to talk - the teenager's family seemingly united only by the secrets they keep.

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To win her patient's trust, Corine is forced to face some secrets of her own ... secrets that are destroying both Corine, and her troubled patient.