"You killed two people", Beth said. "You`re likely to spend the rest of your life in prison." Susan looked up. Her eyes had a faint spark now. "It was worth it", she said. Beth Powell and Susan Wright were best friends - both from troubled families, their only happy times were the summers they spent together as children. Until fate intervened and separated them. It`s twenty-nine years later when they meet again. Susan is a down-and-out who has shot two people in cold blood. Beth is the lawyer allocated to defend her. Yet their friendship still endures, even as the evidence against Susan mounts up - a friendship that must be stronger than the traumas of the past. Because for one of them, there can be no happy ending ...