
Eleanor Shaw, President of the Gordon Group, is severely injured in a hit-and-run by her son Justin Gordon's old flame, Roxanne White. To protect Roxanne, Justin asks his wife, Cheryl Young, to take the fall for the crime and refuses to identify the victim. Before dying in the hospital, Eleanor changes her will, leaving the entire Gordon Group to Cheryl and disinheriting her son, Justin, who is now left with nothing.