The hopes and dreams of a lifetime can be dispelled or shattered in a second. A flash from a gun in the hands of Jim Martin, Peg Martin's estranged husband may yet be the flash of an instance that brings disaster to beautiful Penny Gibbs. Although the shot was intended for Peg it is Penny that is in the hospital gravely wounded. In the room where she has just come out of a coma Penny looks up at her mother.