A promising actor scores big with a hit TV show, so he spreads his good fortune by inviting his volatile younger brother to California. However, no good deed goes unpunished, and what happens next sounds like a movie but proves to be tragically real.

William Cosden Jr. coerced his much younger sisters, Karen and Susan, into keeping secrets about what he did; now the girls are adults, and with one facing death, they reunite to try to repair the trauma keeping those secrets caused them.