Sam Cooper has a happy life: a good job a blossoming relationship. Yet there's something he can never forget - the image seared into his mind of his mother Laurie dying when he was a child. His father allowed his grief to tear them apart and Sam hasn't seen him in years. Until an unexpected call from Firwood hospital asking Sam to come home puts in motion a chain of devastating events. On his deathbed Sam's father makes a shocking confession. Who was Laurie Cooper? It's clear that everything Sam thought he knew about his mother was wrong. And now he's determined to find out exactly what she did and why - whatever the cost.