One has to feel for poor Kyle Ridley, the sensitive husband of Sophia and father to young Emma. Everything goes wrong for Kyle in this domestic melodrama. The film opens with the moment when Kyle and Sophia plan to renew their vows after a brief separation. Then, the dam breaks and the lives of the couple are deluged.
First, Kyle is led to believe that in his one-timer with his neighbor, Claire Johnson, she was impregnated. Then, he makes the stupid mistake of spending more time with Claire, even introducing young Emma to her, distancing himself even farther from his wife. Claire gives helpful advice to Emma in matters of the heart. Next, Kyle punches out a man who flirts with Claire after he has viewed a lurid internet video of her. Young Emma then has the undignified experience of having to call her mom and say, "Dad's been arrested!!!"
The circumstances become especially dire when Sophia herself is arrested and eventually charged with the attempted murder of Claire, after Claire intentionally did a "brake job" on Kyle's beautiful car, which she then nearly totaled.
In the final stretch of the film, it is entirely up to Sophia to research the identity of Claire, after Sophia's friend Rachel, who has the goods on Claire, is drowned by Claire. But the resilient Claire never gives up by relying on her personal strength to find the truth and preserve the value that is most lauded in the film: the importance of family.
First, Kyle is led to believe that in his one-timer with his neighbor, Claire Johnson, she was impregnated. Then, he makes the stupid mistake of spending more time with Claire, even introducing young Emma to her, distancing himself even farther from his wife. Claire gives helpful advice to Emma in matters of the heart. Next, Kyle punches out a man who flirts with Claire after he has viewed a lurid internet video of her. Young Emma then has the undignified experience of having to call her mom and say, "Dad's been arrested!!!"
The circumstances become especially dire when Sophia herself is arrested and eventually charged with the attempted murder of Claire, after Claire intentionally did a "brake job" on Kyle's beautiful car, which she then nearly totaled.
In the final stretch of the film, it is entirely up to Sophia to research the identity of Claire, after Sophia's friend Rachel, who has the goods on Claire, is drowned by Claire. But the resilient Claire never gives up by relying on her personal strength to find the truth and preserve the value that is most lauded in the film: the importance of family.