This is an emotional tale of child abuse, trauma, and how experiencing those things as a child can affect you in adulthood. Particularly, your parenting. Melanie and her siblings were raised rough, and besides a few years of living with their maternal grandparents, their lives were filled with abuse, neglect, and a lack of maternal affection. Mary-Anne, the woman who inflicts this treatment on her innocent children, is an evil woman who doesn't deserve to be or behave like a mother. She doesn't have a maternal bone in her body. When Melanie becomes a young mum, she thinks it's going to be easy to be a fantastic mother, but she soon realises that her own childhood has left her with emotional scars that she needs to heal. Her son, Craig, grows up seeing his mother victimised by the relatives that she won't let go of. Craig is super protective of the mother who's raising him alone. He just wants a happy mother. He will do anything to protect her.....