When her husband Reid's strict financial rules delay their daughter's medical treatment and cause her death, Sloane Vale is devastated. Reid, favoring his mistress, cruelly dismisses the tragedy as a ploy. Sloane gathers evidence of his neglect and the mistress's daughter bullying her child, exposing them online. Reid loses his CEO position and is consumed by agonizing regret. Sloane moves to France, coldly rejecting Reid's desperate pleas for forgiveness years later.