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A MAN SEEKING REDEMPTION: Upon learning shy Helen Ableman is pregnant with his child, college-bound jock Ben Smiley takes a soul-searching drive that lands him in the middle of a gunfight between drug lords. Without Helen’s knowledge, he enters the Federal Witness Protection Program. Eighteen years after the fact, now a sought-after attorney, he returns home.
A SINGLE MOM TRYING TO MAKE ENDS MEET: Abandoned by Ben and disowned by her family, Helen drops out of high school to work at Hot Diggitys, the town’s iconic hotdog-shaped restaurant. Helen eventually becomes the upscale, hotdog eatery’s owner. With her son on the brink of manhood, she urges him to attend college. But he refuses to use her meager savings for himself. When Ben reappears, Helen must deal with the man who’d broken her heart while trying to do what’s best for her son.