The children's laughter abruptly fades on Mount Ernion. Sophia loses her three-year-old angel in an apparently senseless armed attack. Her ex-husband, Kevin, returns violently, but Sophia is no longer the same. Rising from the abuse, she finds herself overwhelmed by Kevin's icy lifeless body in her living room. In prison, among vile criminals, her survival becomes a game with dark rules. Revelations, shadows from the past change the course of events. Nothing is as it seems. Sophia learns the hard way that "love is a privilege of the brave." To regain the life she lost and find the secret that took her son away, she must return to where it all began, on Mount Ernion.