To save her dying lover Finn from heart failure, orphan Lila deliberately paints herself as a gold-digger to force him back to his wealthy family for treatment. Five years later, now terminally ill, she sends their daughter May to Finn with a paternity test, instructing the child to claim “Mom’s fooling around with other men” — ensuring May’s future care. But Finn, misled by years of lies, now has a new woman (Eve) and another “heir”……
