While Penny, a mother of four sits in jail on charges of pre-meditated attempted murder against her fourth husband, she is asked by her attorney to start writing a journal before her jury trial begins in December. Penny begins to reflect on a childhood that was anything but normal. At the age of 5, she is nearly killed by a knife-wielding deranged babysitter, who just escaped from a half-way house, and later discovers that her family had been living under a false identity. By the age of 20, Penny finds herself married to the first of many disastrous marriages, with each one more calamitous...