B Carson, a beautiful young woman, who bore a striking resemblance to the young film star Maureen O'Hara. She shared a small country cottage with her six siblings and her widowed mother Mary.

Patrick Myers was her first real boyfriend, they were married within a year of meeting, it seemed like a marriage made in heaven, but B was yet to discover Patrick's dark side, a side that would turn her life and the life of her twelve children into a hell on earth.

B Carson, a beautiful young woman, who bore a striking resemblance to the young film star Maureen O'Hara. She shared a small country cottage with her six siblings and her widowed mother Mary.

Patrick Myers was her first real boyfriend, they were married within a year of meeting, it seemed like a marriage made in heaven, but B was yet to discover Patrick's dark side, a side that would turn her life and the life of her twelve children into a hell on earth.

Mary, one of B's eight daughters, met and fell in love with Barry Kelly, a handsome seventeen-year-old, one month after his fifteenth birthday. The year was 1958. She wasn't to know back then the long road she was about to travel, would be paved with many a cross to lie heavily on her young shoulders.

For thirty-five years she will walk the same path as B (her mother) toward a loveless marriage, scourged with alcoholism, gambling, violence, and poverty.

Mary remained in her marriage out of loyalty to her young husband, aware that the real Barry was trapped inside the monster he had become.