"There's only one way a fourteen year old kid on her own can earn cash, and that's by acting... you can do it Alison, so let me and Jeff help you".
In fear of her life, Alison is welcomed at Ellergarth by Marley's grandmother Beany, and her father Jeff. However her inner turmoil lends her activng depth and she dances from theatre to tv, to radio and film. But in 1988, at 24, she finds herself the victim of stalking... and is suspicious of her mother's attempts to reconcile.