When an aging mother dies of cancer, her two daughters struggle to put together the pieces of their lives and start anew. But in FAMILY SECRETS, things are not always as they should be: beautiful Ellen marries a good-for-nothing drifter; the shy, quiet Elizabeth finds true love in the strangest place; and no one notices the innocent girl caught in the middle of everything, who has been raped and assaulted by her stepfather since her twelfth birthday. Ellen and Elizabeth never saw eye to eye, but when their mother Rose dies the relationship becomes even more hostile. As Elizabeth slowly finds...