Anita Lowen, the only daughter of biotech tycoon Victor Lowen, returns home from Africa, only to have her life violently derailed on the day she arrives. Hoping to secure her place in the Lowen family, Victor's secretary and fiancée, Serena, brings a priceless virus sample meant as a gift for Anita. But when Anita saves a child from Serena’s speeding car, the sample is destroyed. Unaware that she is attacking the heiress herself, Serena unleashes a brutal campaign of humiliation and violence, beating Anita, nearly disfiguring her, and ultimately injecting the deadly virus into her body. Serena has no idea she has crossed the wrong woman, or that this single mistake will cost her everything.