After a successful run as a cocaine smuggler in 1980's Fort Lauderdale, Donna Buchanan gets caught up with an older gentleman named Charlie. But Charlie, is an enabler and abuser. After years of misery, Donna snaps and stabs Charlie 54 times.

Krista Clark is a social misfit who's been shunned her entire life. She uses sex to win attention from men. She meets Tim and thinks she’s found it. But when that relationship unravels, Krista's frustration reaches a bloody breaking point.

Diane falls for charismatic politician Joe Reilly, but as soon as they say "I do" Joe reveals his inner abusive tyrant. One fight escalates, landing Joe in the hospital.

Single mother Laurene Rugen starts dating her neighbor Chris and enters into a decades' long cycle of terrifying abuse. She refuses to leave, thinking she can change him. When she finally gathers the courage to demand a divorce tensions explode.

Charlene Jackson puts her military career on hold to marry Paul. When she finds out he's into threesomes, she runs and deploys to Kuwait, falling in love with another soldier. When she asks Paul for a divorce, it's a fight to the finish.

After a failed marriage and an abusive relationship with a cruel boyfriend, Liz Cahoon finally finds the perfect man in Eric. But the ghosts of her past and the demons of her addiction mix to cause an out of body trance that leads to bloody attack.

Nicole Taylor is a spoiled princess never learned how to be independent. Spending a lifetime abusing drugs and chasing bad boys, she falls head over heels for Freddie. Her obsession with Freddie turns a lover's quarrel into a violent ending.

Former track star Fatimah Leday joins the army, where she meets a smooth talking soldier named Carlton. The two return to the U.S. and marry. Unfortunately, Fatimah still wants to sow her wild oats, leading to a full scale war with her husband.

Jamie Santos is a wild child who refuses to be tamed. She meets Jonathan and quickly becomes obsessed with him. They break up but later reunite, marry and have a child. But her jealousy eventually boils over with devastating consequences.

Beautiful Latvian Yekaterina Petrov's mother dies and she loses herself in the glitzy Miami nightclub scene. When she meets Mark, a handsome club promoter, the two set off on a rocky romance fueled by sex, drugs and violence, making front page news.