Eighty-year-old Emma Bauer has carefully guarded a dark secret for more than fifty years. But when she sees her granddaughter`s marriage beginning to unravel, Emma realizes that her lies about her own marriage have poisoned those she loves most. Can she help her granddaughter break free of a legacy of wrong choices? Or will she take her secret -- and her broken heart -- to the grave? Yearning for love and dignity, four women from as many generations must come to grips with the choices they have made, and those their mothers made before them. Only when they embrace God`s forgiveness will they break the cycle that has ensnared them over the decades.