Shelly Lietz had been afraid of her son ever since he was four years old. She knew she saw something evil in his eyes that scared her. As he got older and more violent, that fear crippled her, eventually making her a prisoner in her own home.

Thom Bierdz had finally made it big. When he brought his troubled younger brother out to Los Angeles, he thought he could help set him straight. He never expected that the price he would pay for being wrong would be the life of someone he loved.