Desperate to protect her daughter, Ruth Ferguson kidnaps the four-year-old and flees Maine in the dead of night. The young mother has but two days to escape the child's abusive father, and to make a new life far from everyone she knows.

That same night, on the outskirts of the nation's capital, Spencer Rollins stumbles upon a coworker's murder. Terrified by the scene, she bolts, only to be pursued by federal agents who might even be the killers.

When their frantic lives collide in Manassas, Virginia, each woman's fate is delivered to the other's hands. Together, they work to unravel the conspiracies that have them on the run.