As a baby, Ella receives a visit from Lucinda and is bestowed with a magical talent that requires her to obey anything she is told to do. This is more of a curse than a blessing once her mother dies and she is forced to live with Dame Olga.
Amy has a seemingly perfect life, but she's exhausted to the point that she's about to snap. Fed up, she joins forces with two other over-stressed moms and they go on a quest to liberate themselves from conventional responsibilities.
Terri is living an ideal life when Colin, an escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but learns that no good deed goes unpunished when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.