Peninah and Martin have been married for twenty one years-twenty one happy years. Before that, they had dated for six years, going back to their university days. They have three twenty two year old Tess, sixteen year old Anthony and seven year old Philemon. Martin is the CEO of the local Mission Hospital, while Peninah is a successful farmer and the CEO of a local Sacco. Theirs is an affluent family living in a blissful rural setting.
The family bliss is harshly taken away when Peninah is diagnosed with breast cancer. Somewhere along the way, Martin finds comfort in the arms of a twenty five year old woman called Patricia, who is a doctor at the hospital he heads. Tess and her sickly mother Peninah chance upon them one evening making out in Martin’s office. Peninah dies later the same day. Patricia wants to marry Martin and disinherit Tess and her siblings, and she has Martin under her thumb. Tess finds herself in a struggle to defend her mother’s honor and the inheritance she and her brothers deserve. She finds herself going head to head with a calculating gold digger, who her father is defending violently…