FAYE TAYLOR awakes with a smoking gun in her hand. Her boyfriend, JACOB WEST, is lying at her feet, covered in blood. He still clutches the belt he has been beating her with wrapped around his hand. "CLAUDINE" emerges during this beating and shoots Jacob that is her job, she protects Faye. When the police arrive, they find one black male, unconscious, and bleeding profusely from his chest wounds. One black female, unconscious, with a gun shot wound to her right leg, a head injury, cuts and bruises all over her face. The female is revived and questioned. She is the only other person in the house. The police collect two guns and ask the female who they belong to. She says she doesn t know and has never seen those guns before. When asked, she tells them her name is "WANDA". "Wanda" is arrested. Faye recalls incidents and life experiences that lead to this almost fatal shooting. She remembers her first marriage, at seventeen to THOMAS DUNCAN, A PHYSICAL, SEXUAL, AND MENTAL ABUSER. Her first experiences of memory lapses, time losses, and blackouts. She is hospitalized when she twenty-four with a diagnosis of Dissociative Reaction, later termed Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). She meets again VICTOR LONG, who is unwavering in his love, support, and belief in her. After being together for ten years, Victor marries Faye and walks her down the aisle, proclaiming his love for her before God, their family, and friends. Faye is still in therapy with a wonderful psychiatrist and a very compassionate psychologist. Faye has mended all broken family ties and is much more stable. She still has two distinctive personalities, "KARLA" and "LOIS", remaining in an accepting, compromising, sometimes rocky, atmosphere. Victor knows and treats each as individuals, knowing his Faye will soon return. Will 'Lois' and 'Karla' remain with Faye forever?....