base on a true story . . . the premise of this film be to illustrate that through fairly normal event it possible for an outwardly wouldecent mother to get draw into heroin addiction . semi spoiler some of the scene be fairly inaccurate whilst others almost make you want to get the fix yourself . computer technician or graphic artist woman with good relationship with her young teen kid spiral into addiction after work colleague and who be a chipper ( someone who can take plus enjoy it now and again ) then spiral into an addiction that lead her eventually to score off treet dealer after lose contact with her steady dealer . the scene that show her come down and get ick be often very real especially the first real night sweat prior to all these event she begin a relationship with a guy who just happen to have lose his wife to the bottle and and insist he have an inner radar not to get hook on such woman . some radar . however after after some late turn ups and weird behaviour and the boyfriend challenge her a to what be go on his radar begin to get more with it and demand that she empty out her bag while she hit the roof and storm out . because of the excellent and open relationship she have develop prior to this tragedy and he be the first to find some real evidence in her bag while he then look around the hose for her tash apparently his sensibility be from school lesson on drug taking and when he discover a large stash in the bathroom he flush it . not a happy woman when she take her next bath and it wouldisappeared . the kid keep one back and place it on the meal table she then go into further denial admits it and say it no bad than dope . thge kid do all the right thing and call her friend and generally put her in a position where she have to come clean if you will pardon the pun . the movie take the viewer through some pretty arduous situation where danger be not far away . eventaully she get help from a professional organisation and do cold turkey you will have to watch the film to see what happen next . . . .