when a woman named Alma becomes pregnant, she is ecstatic, but he husband, Joe walburg, tells her even with both of their job incomes combined, they still will not be able to afford a child without second jobs. the couple ultimately put the baby, to whom they give the name Melody, for a closed adoption with the choice to pull out of the adoption at anytime before the papers are officially singed at the time of birth. when Joe gets an early promotion at his job, he and Alma can now afford to have their baby, so they pull out of the adoption in favor of keeping their little one. when the couple set to adopt Melody, Mia and Harold Stone, is informed they begin plotting on how to steal Melody away from Joe and Alma forever, to have the daughter they could never conceive. When Melody runs away from her home in Amada in a fury, Mia and Harold jump at the chance to take her somewhere far away where Harold and Mia hope to have the family they never got. Now, Melody must run from her community, who will stop at nothing to find her alive, and the couple whom she almost knew as family. Can Melody run from her home and past? or will her past catch up to her, and steal her away?