Released from prison after 7 years for killing her husband, a troubled woman is determined to reclaim the child she had abandoned as a baby from the loving care of the woman who has been raising her, her estranged sister.

Encouraged by her lover, Danielle kills her husband and goes on the lam with her infant daughter Cali. But the cops catch her and, en route to prison, she agrees to give custody of Cali to her arch rival, her sister Nikki. But on release from prison, Danielle will stop at nothing to get Cali back from Nikki's safe and healthy home.