The husband brought his illegitimate child home.

Chloe and her husband Mark have tried for years to have a child without success. When Mark suddenly suggests adopting an orphan, Chloe, newly pregnant and secretly aware of his affair, agrees. The next day he brings the baby home; soon after, he and his mistress fake their deaths and flee to Europe, leaving Chloe with the child and his mother.

Chloe quietly has Mark and his mistress declared legally dead and returns the boy to an orphanage, where a kind couple adopts him. She keeps her pregnancy and her savings hidden, and with her mother-in-law's support begins building a new life.

Years later, when Chloe's own child is grown, her "dead" husband and his mistress return, demanding their biological son back.