Jared married badly, but he tries to make it better. Oh how he tries. 'Stand by your woman, ' was the moral epithet instilled in him by his grandfather. When Renee goads Jared into brutality and beats the kids, he snaps out of it, but it's too late. He gets custody of the kids, and tries to put their lives back together, but Renee and her wealthy parents continue their reign of terror, sending Jared over the edge. Now he's strapped to a chaise lounge and reliving his past with a vengeance, with the help of a strange, old gypsy psychiatrist. She can take him back in time to the point where he met his wife and choose not to meet her, but then he'll lose his children. There aren't many choices left, though, when people are dying, you're suspected of murder, and you're in a coma.