Janice O’Neill, beautiful but immature, tries to abandon her husband and two daughters in the mid 1980s. Jilted by a criminal lover, she takes jobs which begin to show her skills in a variety of areas. When she fends off a bullying nasty attack from a customer at the shop where she works. He pursues her across the US and into Brazil, where she meets and falls in love with Chris. the man who will become her husband. Together they fight their way in the past against Simpkins, the villain, finally leaving him in a Hell of his own making.