Swenny Seacord, a divorced psychologist in his late seventies, is an extremely prosperous entrepreneur with no children and whose sole desire is to leave this world as a ‘Dad’.   He strangely encounters a young 21-year-old destitute, exceptionally attractive young woman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton White, while she was relaxing at the beautiful Hudson River.

Unbeknownst to him, Elizabeth continually suffers from low self-esteem due to the sexual abuse from her father whom she eventually murders to end his erotic exploitations. She is not suspected and lives with this crime continually which perpetually nags her conscience to the point where she cannot lead a normal existence.

She becomes emotionally attached to Swenny Seacord while at the same time he becomes obsessed in his desire to adopt her. Procrastination destroys the adoption intention and creates tragedy and chaos.