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Georgia goes into labor while walking home with her husband Bennett and five-year-old daughter Kiley. The only help the desperate family can find on the cold, rainy night comes from a kind homeless woman, Cora Dawson. Despite Cora's efforts, problems develop during the delivery, and Bennett's emotions get the better of him. The family leaves Cora alone and suffering in the dark alley where they'd met her, unaware of the secret she now knows, tying them to her for decades.As the years pass, Kiley and her younger brother, Jacob, grow up frightened of their drunken, abusive father. Georgia is unable to protect her children from Bennett's oppression, and Jacob rebels, falling victim to the darker side of the city. After the shocking death of Bennett, Jacob's life of drug trafficking and murder spirals out of control, headed for a tragic end. Now, a clue to the family's past leads Kiley back to Cora, who reveals a truth she's held these many years. It's a secret that shows the family a different life they could have had and the remains of a happier life that may yet be possible.Pursued by the psychotic drug boss, Leon Whitfield and narcotics detective, Bruce Farnsworth, Jacob appears headed for one of two ends . . . prison or bullets. Can he overcome the circumstances of his troubled formative years? Could Jacob still become the man who Cora's secret proves he could have been? Or has he truly become his father's son?