
Melanie Ford's critically ill father needs her, but she's obstructed. Married three years into the Shaw family, she never returned. With a weak husband, she divorces, taking her daughter. Mother-in-law snatches child, demands bride price at hospital, causing father's cardiac arrest. Melanie files lawsuit; mother-in-law detained. Court grants divorce, custody. Melanie gets a promotion, stable life. Sean Shaw remarries a tyrannical wife, his home in turmoil.