Carmen Monroe is a successful accountant who hides her past in order to survive in the business world. Always befriended because of how she looks rather than who she is. She substitutes things and sex, for love and acceptance. As a result she never learns what her real principal assets are as a woman. After being discovered having a torrid affair, she snaps and kills her husband and her step-son.

Commissioned is a modern-day fable about doing what's right no matter who is involved. When Maxwell Simpson's adopted mother dies and he's abused by his adopted father, he becomes a runaway living on the street. He's taken in by an African American woman and her brother. Living with them he realizes discrimination is more real than he thinks. When he lands his first job as an investigative auditor for the Securities and Exchange Commission he is compelled to put not only his accounting skills to work but his belief system about racism. His first investigation puts him in the position to make...