On a bleak, urban wasteland three children formed a bond that would outlast all the traumas of their youth and the success of their adult careers ...
David, whose comfortable lifestyle masked a family in financial and emotional chaos, is now a rising political star, while Jennifer, free at last of her too-fond stepfather, heads a thriving restaurant business. And Paul, the orphaned refugee, has done best of them all - survived his violent guardian and a spell at reform school to build a prosperous multinational company.
Yet the damage of the past still lies close to the surface, revealed in their errors and failings, both personal and professional. When the inescapable crisis strikes all their loves and livelihoods, who will crack, and who withstand the strain?