Johnny Richards is a prisoner who is about to get an early release due to political changes in St.Maarten. Richards was serving time for the accidental murder of a father and son. The widow of the victim Maria, learns of his potential pardon and goes to extreme measures to stop the release from taking place.
A young woman leaves her abusive husband in Holland to seek refuge in St. Maarten. But the law has changed since the island obtained country status and she is stranded at the airport. The Chief Immigration Officer is a man of integrity and exemplary service, who is torn between enforcing the new law and instinctively helping a woman he doesn’t know and whom he meets on the anniversary of his wife’s death.
