After marriage, Victor Hayes left home to build a better life, rising from a nobody to the head of a publicly traded conglomerate in three years. He yearns to reunite with his family and return home in glory, but soon discovers his wife, Stella, has betrayed him and abused his parents. She poisoned his mother, Martha Hayes, leaving her mute, while his father, George Hayes, died of illness. Blinded by Stella's lies, Victor learns the devastating truth too late. Heartbroken, he kneels in deep remorse before his father's memorial portrait.