Arthur Burney believes it's true love when he runs off with Patricia Meeks, the waitress from his favorite bar. And soon Arthur and Patricia have a daughter of their own. But 16 years later, tensions are stretched to the limit, and someone will snap.
John Parker marries Judy, a nice girl from the wrong side of the tracks. John uses his wealth and status to keep his new wife happy. But Judy's rumored romantic entanglements with a string of John's employees prove to be too much for John to bear.
Tommy and Tamara Kane appear to have it all. He's a pro football player for the Seattle Seahawks; she's a devoted mother living in Montreal. Distance keeps this couple together, but when Tommy's career ends, the proximity will tear them apart.
Marcia's relationship with a trucker causes resentment on the part of her teenage daughter and sets off a chain reaction leading to six arrests and one dead body.
Sparks fly when picture-perfect divorcés Tami and Alan meet at a wedding - within months they're married too. But when Tami starts uses her sultry good looks to get what she wants from every man she meets, one of them will end up dead.
Tanya Buschman is just getting out of a nasty marriage when she falls for handsome Michel Bérubé, a bartender in Montreal. But it's not long before jealousy becomes foreplay for a suspicious suicide that has friends pointing fingers at friends.
When music promoter Tony Smith finds former actress, Lilius Landrum, he marries her. But Tony soon learns that Lilius is still legally married to someone else. The couple sets off together down a dark path that ends with the most horrific sin of all.
Steve Dingle, a young Filipino immigrant, returns to his homeland to find a bride. It seems like a match made in heaven when he meets Cathy. But pressure builds in their marriage that will explode into infidelity, violence, and murder.
The only thing going for Christina Corrigan is Keith Belajonas, a cute 25-year-old she meets online. After a couple of years and kids, they marry. But the honeymoon won't last long, and the jagged edges of their broken dreams will lead to a blood bath.
John and Evie Watson manage to bridge the gap between their ages, cultures and languages. But after more than a quarter century of marriage-the pillars of their love have crumbled to pieces causing tempers to flare and secrets to be uncovered.