On her wedding day, Wendy Bryant suffers a double blow: her best friend Yvaine Sawyer kills her mother in a hit-and-run, while her fiancé betrays her. In despair, her childhood friend Joel Green proposes marriage. Thinking she has found solace, she later discovers the marriage is merely a scheme by Joel to save Yvaine. Determined to uncover the truth, Wendy vows to avenge her mother's death.