Si?ngle-mo!;ther Sandra (Clar`e $D[]unne) escapes her abus/ ive #partne@r with ,-(her two young chil dr_en,* -#only t#\o f-?,ind herself: ^tr+;app:[ed)/ in
]+temporar`)y accom; mod(/]at?ion. After +`)months -_[_of struggl+ing, she dra`[ws ;insp-ir#ation from on. e of %\_;he+?r daughter’s bedtime stories and hit\;#s upon t$/. he i.]dea = o f self-buil?% d*ing #a!n a!@ff
/ ordable home..
She f@inds an arch#=$;i;)(tect who provi  des her w\ ith $#![pla(#ns and-$ is offered l]^!and by Peg(%\gy (=H,]arrie [t\. Walter), ( :`a woman s?he clean`(s for. Aido (#Co\/nleth Hill) ,  a buil? ding contracto@r, appe` ar:*s will=?!ing to help t_oo! . But as her past rears its hea(d[@, i
%.n the form of Gary (Ia$ [n

_
L!lo,=y-d Anderson),  ;h:er ?posses]*.sive e.-x, #and as bureauc]rats figh+ ;%t bac*k against her$ independe]--nt spirit,\[  w:,ill Sand!--/ra be able to r,ebui(@
/ld he@/r life fro*m the ground  up