Rose Daniels is the wife of a cop. For fourteen years, she lives with his beatings, afraid that some day, he will kill her. When she decides to leave him, she steals his ATM card, and withdraws enough money from his bank account to escape and begin a new life. In a large city, she finds refuge in a home for battered women and finds a painting in a junk shop that inspires her to new levels of confidence, and gets an amazing job to support herself. But her husband has followed her trail, and is coming to find her. When he arrives in the city, he kills person after person trying to locate his wayward wife. When things look dire, and it appears that Rose and her new boyfriend will be killed by Norman, the crazed cop/husband, Rose flees into the painting, now grown to an entire world, and allows a woman there to help her be rid of him, at last.
