To escape her wealthy father, who disapproved of her secret marriage to a poor man and was determined to bring her home, Helen Hayes's daughter-in-law, Eleanor Hawthorne, and her husband, Adam Xu, fake their deaths in a car crash. They leave behind their four-year-old fraternal twins, Tia and Leo, and Helen Hayes is left to raise them on her own. However, the wealthy Arthur Hawthorne—Eleanor's father—suddenly decides he wants custody of the twins. Unwilling to let her grandchildren be taken away, Helen refuses the money Arthur offers, sparking a dramatic battle with him for the children...
