Attractive and talented career-driven woman seeking some kind of reality as an actress, wife and mother, struggles with her own inner sense of life continuity while contending with her abusive husband and the problems of her four sons. She becomes enmeshed in the struggle for her own sanity being tantalized by career success and a new found world of physical sensuality, while succumbing to the temptations of pleasure. The story moves from the Midwest to Denver to Los Angeles as she tries to outrun the destiny foreshadowing her life.