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“She played with fire... Five years later she's about to get burnt!”
A young woman's past catches up with her five years later and nearly shatters her life. As a footloose cocktail waitress, she unwittingly once spent the night in Manhattan with a political assassin and now, as a happily married cop's wife, has the misfortune of running into him after all this time in Portland, Oregon -- and the pursuit begins.
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Three years after the death of her beloved child, Elouise, Mara still feels her presence when she sits on the butterfly bedding in front of the jar with her ashes in it. Mara arranges a twelfth birthday party for Elouise, further alienating her from her husband, Richter, and remaining daughter, Hannah. Although Mara eventually vacates Elouise's room at the insistence of her husband, she does find a way to stay close to Elouise. Before long, however, Hannah discovers her mother's secret.

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Don Poli, the patriarch of a family embedded in politics, faces the change of party in his state - after a hundred years in power - losing all his privileges. Humiliated and angry, he threatens to disinherit his family and leave to rebuild his life. This forces his children (Kippy, Ramses and Belén) to take extreme measures to ensure their future, causing everything that could go wrong to turn out worse.