Forty-year-old Ellen Johnson lives in the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Mike, and two young daughters, Jill and Kelly. Following a tragic accident on Christmas Day that takes the lives of her family, Ellen finds herself desperate to redefine who she is now that she's no longer a wife and a mother.

She drives to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to escape from anyone who knows her and her tragic story. Little does she know when she makes the reservations to the oceanfront casino that she would become caught up in an arrest that completely changes the path of her...