Homewrecking
When Sondra Brooks tells her husband of 23 years that she plans to divorce him, he knows exactly where to take aim. "You're going to turn out just like your mother," he says.
As a young child, Sondra acted as confidante and, at times, co-conspirator in helping her mother win marriage proposals. She struggled with fierce anger toward her mother — who did nothing to protect her from a childhood of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse — while desperately wanting her love and approval. The endless chaos and dysfunction drove Sondra into depression and addiction, and eventually into a toxic marriage.
Decades later, when she finally emerges from the haze of cigarette smoke and alcohol abuse, she realizes she has lived her entire life to that point as an extension of her mother. Worse, she has come perilously close to becoming what she'd most feared: a homewrecker. She gets a divorce and remarries. Her mother marries for the eighth time.
When illness renders her mother partially incapacitated, Sondra grapples with a decision regarding her mother's future care. She learns that homewrecking takes many forms. Should she make the wrong decision, the success of her second marriage might be at risk.