A police captain is haunted by the memories of an abusive and combative father who nearly killed her twice and abused her mother throughout their marriage. Former police captain Donna Roman Hernandez suffered more than 25 years of physical violence and emotional terrorism in her family household at the hands of her father, a former court constable and World War II veteran. In her docu-memoir, this veteran New Jersey street cop exposes her family's secret; the decades of physical and psychological abuse; chronicles her journey of survival along with testimonials from family and friends; tells the reasons why she and her mother stayed; vividly details how she survived a near fatal strangulation by her father; and how she and her mother finally escaped that house of horrors and from her father's powerful grip and control over their lives. It's an amazing journey about an ultimate betrayal in her family told by the police officer who survived it.