Liza Drake is a single mother, recently unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Pete Brenner, a pharmaceutical sales rep, and starts on a financial hot streak. But she also embarks on an ethically questionable path and ends up involved in a dangerous criminal plot. Faced with an increasingly unhinged boss, her daughter’s health problems and the certainty of the damage her company is doing, Liza begins to look for alternatives.