In the life of Cecil Keegan, everything is going very well. She is young, beautiful, independent - works in a prestigious law firm - and is getting married. The chosen one, Cecil, is a successful surgeon who not only promises to be a good husband to her, but is also ready to replace the father of her ten-year-old daughter, whom she is raising alone.

But one day a man appears on the threshold of her house, seemingly a tramp... and Cecil's whole measured, well-ordered life goes to hell...