Maria's world shatters when her husband Joel, starts an affair; she fights to save their marriage, but Joel refuses to give up his mistress, and Maria's patience runs out; when she threatens divorce, Joel makes a deadly plan to stop her.

Jenny and Mike were teen sweethearts but after marrying, Mike begins a campaign of control and violence against his wife and children. Just as Jenny plans to escape her living nightmare, Mike finds out and decides he will do anything to stop her.

When Angie meets Joe, her family and friends aren't sure what to make of their relationship; the couple marry and have kids but soon Angie becomes isolated from her loved ones and trapped in a spiral of abuse that ends in an horrific triple homicide.

When Heidi's alcoholic husband, Chris, goes missing, she searches far and wide to find him, getting help from Chris' wider family; after a missing person's report is filed, police uncover a dark secret hidden in the basement of the marital home.

After years of abuse, Cheryl Metcalf musters the courage to leave her husband, Thom Rogers; he stalks her and torments their two children. When Cheryl finds a new love, her ex sets a trap to take the ultimate revenge in 1998.

A successful Palm Beach, FL, family has their American dream shattered when a mysterious figure dressed as a clown delivering flowers shoots a loving mother on her doorstep in 1990. The case goes cold for decades until an unexpected break helps bring the killer clown to justice.