In the early morning hours of July 29, 1995, 13-year-old Thad Phillips is kidnapped by seventeen-year old Joe Clark, a local boy who has snuck into the Phillips' house. Over the next two days, he will viciously and methodically torture the young boy.

19-year-old Katya is growing desperate. She's been held by human traffickers for a year and forced into prostitution at a strip club. After eight months of torture, she begins to plot her escape.

Nearly one thousand people are living and working in Jim Jones People's Temple. Yet, to 18 yr old Brenda Parks, Jonestown in more hellish prison than heaven on earth. Brenda and her family secretly begin hatching a plan to escape.

In October 1983, Tami Ashcraft, 24, and her boyfriend accept a job to sail a yacht from Tahiti to San Diego. But they encounter a dangerous category four storm, and the radio is dead. But, after a month lost at sea Tami finally makes it to land.

Eric Le Marque, a 34-year-old former Olympian for hockey had been snow boarding in the mountains, but now he's lost. He will learn the limits of what the human body can endure -- and that Mother Nature takes no prisoners.

Cynthia Vigil is being held and tortured by Ray and his female accomplice. She knows she must escape or face certain death.

Rangel and Lorenzo Madrid had been fishing in the Sea of Cortez when they noticed the light was fading and the winds were picking up. What came next landed them on a barren, inhospitable island, stranded, for two weeks.

Karen Kummerer is in the bathroom of a restaurant. Two days earlier, her ex-boyfriend kidnapped her at knifepoint, forced her into his car and began to drive. She leaves notes hoping that someone will alert authorities, it's her only way to escape.

It’s love at first sight for a young New Jersey couple until jealousy and suspicion of infidelity lead to a string of bitter arguments after their wedding. The beautiful bride turns vicious when she stabs her husband and he nearly loses his life.

A New York City mother of four meets the man of her dreams until he starts using drugs and repeatedly abusing her. Just when she thinks he’s gotten rid of his demons, he brutally attacks her and in a fight for her life she stabs him to death.

A woman with several failed marriages thinks the fourth time’s the charm when she meets a suave, older man. He provides her with a lavish lifestyle but she soon accuses him of having an affair. When he asks for a divorce, she stabs him in the back.

A beautiful but misguided young woman becomes a stripper and ends up publicly tarnishing her reputation. The incident leads to a string of bad relationships until one night, she stabs her lover during a fight that turns physical and winds up in jail.

When teenage mother Sarah Saunders meets Tommy he seems too good to be true. But months into their relationship, he becomes controlling and she wants out. After trying to poison Tommy, she plunges a knife into his head but miraculously, he survives.

Lori McLuckie never felt like she fit in with society. She hoped to gain some self-confidence in a new city. She meets Andrew and thinks he's her soulmate, until he attacks her and her unborn child. She fights back by bludgeoning and stabbing him.

Jameelah is studying her way out of urban Baltimore. She falls for James, a drug dealer. Incarceration can’t separate them, and they get married. When reunited the relationship becomes volatile. Jameelah stabs James five times in a fit of rage.

It's love at first sight for Jonathan & Courtney who are both deaf. The honeymoon is short-lived when Courtney leaves him for her ex-husband. Jonathan turns to another woman. When Courtney finds out, a fight ends with Jonathan dead from a stab wound.