When Joya Smithson's husband dies in a car crash, her comfortable life abruptly ends. In 1975, the world outside is rapidly changing, but Joya has had few worries as a housewife and mother. But her husband kept some terrible secrets, and now those secrets are devastating Joya's world. Suddenly she has no money, no workplace skills and no home. She has too much pride to ask help from her daughter, who is busy with her own life, but what can Joya do?...