Maggie, an unmarried mother of four children by four different men who abused her, leaves her kids home alone one night. A fire injures them and child services takes custody. Maggie fails to regain custody of her children.

Maggie Conlan is a unmarried mother. She had four children by four different men, that she left because they all beat her. The only night she left her children alone at home, they are hurt by a fire. So the social services take them away. She unsuccessfully fights to have them back.