The movie begins with Katie attending a benefit party with her father, police office Jack Liner, and family. There she meets Jimmy for the first time. They soon start dating. She thinks he is the one. He is polite, handsome, respectful, and popular. Jack feels something is wrong with him but wants his daughter happy so he leaves it alone. He thinks it won't get serious anyway. He thinks she is too young for Jimmy. But then he receives shocking news that Jimmy asked Katie to marry him.
At the wedding, Jimmy shows a little bit of bossy side with Katie. She doesn't think anything of it. After being married for awhile, Katie gives birth to a baby boy. After the baby is born, Jimmy starts showing violent behavior, pushing and hitting her. Jimmy starts talking mean, telling her to shut up and screaming at her all the time. Apologizing afterwards always makes Katie forgive him and take him back. She doesn't tell anyone about the abuse. She really does love him and she doesn't want to leave him.
Katie is pregnant with her second child. Sadly, the bruises soon start to become noticeable. Her sister notices but Katie begs her not to say anything. Katie comes close to telling her father but for some reason, she is afraid to tell him. Katie does tell her mother who advises her to leave him so Katie does decide to leave. Jimmy finds her packing and gets furious and doesn't let her leave. He starts beating her. He reaches for his shotgun. Outside of the house, silence is there but then shots ring out. The police arrive. Katie's father, Jack comes and finds Katie kneeling in the corner. She admits to shooting Jimmy. She cries that she still loves Jimmy. He doesn't want to but Jack has to arrest Katie.
At the police station, Katie meets with her lawyer. She admits to him the abuse that she endured from Jimmy. He right away requests a doctor to examine Katie for any bruises or internal injuries. At the hospital, the nurse takes pictures of the many bruises all over Katie's body. Jack finally finds out that Jimmy has been abusing Katie. He right away thinks that Katie won't be in trouble for shooting Jimmy. He thinks its self-defense. Katie's lawyer says it's not that easy. At the funeral, Jimmy's parents start screaming at Katie for killing him.
Katie is visiting a psychiatrist to deal with the abuse and to help with her trial defense. She admitted to the psychiatrist that she always felt as if she deserved the abuse. Katie and her lawyer decide to go with the battered woman defense. Katie wants everyone to know what Jimmy did to her but she wants everyone to know that she still loved him. The trial begins and the witnesses are not proving the domestic abuse, especially since none of the incidents were reported. When Katie testifies, she admits that if she loved Jimmy enough that the abuse would stop but it never did. She admits what happened when she shot Jimmy. She admits that if she didn't do anything that Jimmy would have abused her one too many times and kill her. After hearing her testimony, the jury finds her not guilty.
At Jimmy's grave site, Katie kneels, lays a flower down, and whispers to Jimmy, "You always promised tomorrow will be better. But tomorrow never came for us." Then she tells her son, Jaime, that everything will be okay and that they will have a better tomorrow.
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