Trigger warning: Child Death, Suicide, and Rape. The film begins with Helen reading a bedtime
story to her daughter, Alice. Helen is surprised to see Alice so
friendly, unlike her normal self. After tucking her daughter to bed,
Helen is spending time alone, when she hears a frantic knock at the door.
She opens it up to a crying Ronnie who says that “She made me do it”
and repeatedly mutters "sorry". Helen hugs her and the scene shifts to 3 Days Earlier.
Helen is getting Alice ready for a birthday party and Alice is not happy about having to
bring Ronnie along, saying “she is weird”. Her mom asks her to be kind to Ronnie as
she doesn’t have any friends and they have been playing together since kindergarten.
While walking to the party, Alice tells her that she didn’t want to bring her,
while Ronnie says she didn’t want to come. At the party, the other kids are having fun
but Alice gets ignored by everyone, while Ronnie doesn’t even try to socialize. The birthday girl
doesn’t like the book that Alice gave her. Ronnie hides her gift but Alice grabs it and
gives it to the girl, it’s a black Barbie. The girl says a halfhearted ‘thank you.' and Ronnie
snaps at her, saying that she is a stupid liar. The mom tries to talk to Ronnie but gets hit by
her. Alice intervenes but the mom asks both of them to leave, much to Alice’s annoyance.
While the girls are walking back home, Ronnie sees an unattended stroller on
the front porch of a house, she knocks on the door but there is no reply.
Alice asks Ronnie to stop, but she just stares at the baby with a smile,
and the film cuts to some newspaper articles. The highlights read that a 'bi-racial baby girl,
named Olivia Barnes went missing, she was the granddaughter of the city’s first black judge.'
The next highlight reads that 'the infant was found dead.'
Later, 'the police arrested the baby killers who were 11 years old white
girls from opposite sides of the track, and they were sentenced to 7 years of Juvenile Hall.'
The cop who found the killers was 'promoted to the detective position,
just after two months in the academy.' In the next scene, Alice has been released,
she is 18 now and is watching a TV show quite intently. Helen informs her that
Ronnie has got a job and encourages her to find one, before leaving for work.
Instead of finding a job, Alice practices a speech about being a “victim” of the justice system.
She believes that people would be interested in listening to her story, as she spent a long
time in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She aimlessly walks around the town, eating junk
food, and stares at Ronnie across the street, who is smoking outside the bagel shop she works at.
Back home, Helen asks Alice about her job search, and she lies about the places she
has applied to but got rejected. Helen assures her that something will come up.
Then a flashback takes us to where Ronnie is at Alice’s house and Helen asks them if they want
a sip of her drink. Ronnie volunteers and takes a sip but Alice denies it,
saying that it’s illegal. Helen asks her to loosen up a bit,
she continues to praise Ronnie for her drawing while Alice gets visibly jealous.
In the present, a couple is buying a couch with their young daughter, while constantly arguing,
as the woman doesn’t want a leather couch but the man keeps insisting on it.
The mother then notices that her daughter, Britany, is not around. She begins to get
worried while everyone helps them look for her. Next, we see Ronnie who is late for work,
apologizing to the manager that she took her mother to the hospital.
Ronnie seems lost and after work, goes out to smoke where Alice is watching her from afar.
A vehicle picks Ronnie up and drives off. Later, we see the detectives Nancy and Kevin
questioning the parents of the missing daughter. They find out that the man is not the biological
father, so the detective begins questioning him even more, offending the couple. Nancy then
takes over and calms the situation down. Alice gets back home late, even though
they were supposed to have dinner together. Helen’s disappointment at Alice is evident,
when she tells her that sometimes she thinks Alice got switched at the hospital.
The next day, the detective gets a call from the furniture store, where they find blood drops,
Britany’s clothes, and hair. This takes Nancy back to Olivia’s
murder and she gets saddened by her inability to find the missing child.
In her flashback we see Nancy who was still a rookie cop, jokingly looking for
the missing child with her partner. Her enthusiasm soon turns into horror
when she walks towards the rotting smell direction, and falls to her knees, crying.
Then we see Olivia’s mother, Cynthia, watching the news of Britany’s disappearance. She then
visits the police station along with her baby. She informs them that Ronnie and Alice have been
out of prison, and they live less than three miles away from where Britany went missing.
Nancy assures her that this case is different from the earlier one.
Cynthia remarks that Britany was a 3-year-old bi-racial child with curly hair,
and is sure that the girls mistook Britany for Cynthia's daughter.
They assure her that her concerns will be taken seriously.
The detectives then visit Ronnie at the bagel place to question her. This startles Ronnie,
and she tells them that she’ll meet them outside, but runs away, making herself a suspect.
The detectives then go to question Alice, but a hostile Helen doesn’t welcome them inside and
tells them that Alice might be out walking. The detective asks her when Alice came back
home last night, and Helen tells them that she came really late.
Late at night, Alice gets back home. Helen tells her about the detective
and asks if she did anything again. Alice says that she didn’t do anything
even last time. Helen asks her if she can prove it, and Alice says
that they should go talk to the police. The next day Alice tells the detectives
about her day, that she went for a walk and put in an application at Arby’s.
The detective remarks that Arby’s is near the Paradise furniture, where Britany went missing
and Alice says she saw it in the news. Nancy asks her if she knows anything about
Britany. Alice hesitantly tells her that while walking around, she saw Ronnie, who
seemed nervous, as if someone was watching her. Nancy dismisses this and shows her a picture of
Britany, and asks her what Ronnie and Alice were thinking, when they took Olivia from her house.
She asks Alice to help her understand the kidnapper’s mind by walking her
through the day they abducted Olivia. Then, a flashback shows Ronnie knocking
on the door, and upon not getting any answer, she ran off with the
baby while Alice constantly tried to stop her. Ronnie told Alice that Olivia is her baby now,
and she could take better care of her, while Alice just watches.
Alice still denies having any involvement in the abduction, as well as the murder, saying
that she wasn’t even there when Ronnie did it. She says that it was unfair to send her to prison
for the same crime, that just because Ronnie is skinny and pretty, doesn’t mean she is not bad,
adding that no one ever believes the obesed girl. Before they could question her any further,
Helen comes insisting that to take Alice home and doesn’t let the detectives take her blood sample.
Meanwhile, Nancy keeps having flashbacks of Olivia’s case and goes out at night to
the same place where she found her body. She hesitantly looks around and finds Ronnie.
She finds out that Ronnie doesn’t even know about the missing case, and runs away just
because she was scared of Nancy, as she saw her on TV getting awarded for finding Olivia.
Nancy asks her why she took Olivia away and we see another flashback. She says that Olivia was
crying and she couldn’t leave her like that. But in Ronnie’s memory, Alice accepts the baby
as well, saying that they will keep her as they take her to the same place she was found dead.
We see Alice dominating, holding the baby, while Ronnie kept asking for her turn. She
orders Ronnie to make Olivia a bed. Ronnie isn’t sure if they should leave
the baby there, but Alice says that they need to go back home and will be back tomorrow.
Nancy realizes that Alice lied. Ronnie tells her that she stole the pudding from her dad’s truck to
feed the baby and it made Olivia sick. We see the two girls trying to figure
out why Olivia is sick. Nancy asks why they didn’t
take her to the hospital and Ronnie tells her that they were scared of getting into trouble,
after seeing Olivia all over the news. Ronnie tried to convince Alice to take Olivia
back, but Alice said it would make it worse, and she would put all the blame on Ronnie,
saying that it was her idea, and then Ronnie would be taken to jail.
Nancy asks her how Alice’s toy got to the crime scene,
and Ronnie confesses that she put it there. Ronnie is shown Britany’s picture and instantly
says that the girl looks like Alice, but then apologizes for saying stupid things that come to
her mind, she denies ever seeing Britany. They ask Ronnie for a blood sample
but she says no. Ronnie visits Helen,
who welcomes her with open arms and seems to know her more than Alice. She tells her how
Alice makes her sad while pouring her a drink. The same night, Alice gets back home late and
Helen questions her about who gives her a ride. Alice dismisses her, saying that she got a job.
Back at the station, the detectives try to dig into the girls’ lives during juvenile
hall and discover that Alice gave birth to a bi-racial baby, at the age of 15,
who was sent for adoption. While Ronnie tried to do
harm several times and got into fights. Upon interrogation, Helen claims that Alice was
assaulted but never pressed charges against him. The detectives are assertive and tell Helen to
answer where Alice spends most of her time. She informs that Alice spends most of her time
hanging out at the poolside, just watching kids. We then see Ronnie, who walks up to Alice watching
the same kids from their childhood birthday party, playing at the pool.
Ronnie warns Alice that she'll be caught but Alice insists Ronnie will be the one
getting arrested as she is the murderer. This takes Ronnie back to the flashback
where Alice manipulated Ronnie to attack the baby, but Ronnie doesn’t want to do it.
Alice blames Ronnie for feeding Olivia the pudding but Ronnie says that it was her idea. Alice asks
Ronnie if she’ll do everything Alice ordered her to do. And Ronnie asks her to shut up.
Just then the detectives arrive while Ronnie runs away, Alice pretends as if Ronnie is the culprit,
but the detectives don’t buy her and take her in. They ask Alice if Britany is okay
but Alice stays silent. Helen arrives demanding that
they interrogate her daughter in the presence of her lawyer. Nancy dismisses her saying that
Alice has Britany and Helen goes silent. Nancy then asks Helen where Britany is,
but Helen says that she has no idea. Nancy then asks why Alice thinks Britany is her daughter.
Then we see Alice telling the detectives her love story with a janitor named Rodrigo,
who worked at the Juvenile hall. Alice was excited to have the baby, but after
their affair was discovered, Rodrigo was fired and as it was too late for an abortion, Helen forced
Alice into giving her baby up for adoption. Helen tells Nancy that Alice became obsessed
to know about the baby, so she made up a story that her baby lives in a good
part of the town and has Alice’s features, and a heart-shaped birthmark on her back.
Alice says that she wanted to get her daughter back, so after getting out,
she reconnected with Rodrigo and began her search, combing the entire town,
until she came across Britany, who looked just like her, Alice took her and found the birthmark.
She kidnapped Britany with the help of Rodrigo after cutting her hair and changing her clothes,
saying Rodrigo was so nervous that his nose began to bleed.
Nancy shows Alice the birth certificates and convinces her that Britany is not her daughter.
Upon inquiring some more, Alice informs Nancy that Rodrigo took Britany to stay at his mother's
house, while Alice framed Ronnie for the crime. Back home, Ronnie thinks back to the time when
Olivia was really sick and she was forced by Alice to put her down.
Overwhelmed by the guilt, Ronnie makes a terrible decision.
Alice takes the detectives to Rodrigo's house and we see Helen thinking back to the past;
when Ronnie came to her crying and told her everything.
Helen had instructed Ronnie to plant Alice’s toy at the crime scene, so that she would
be punished equally. The detectives take
Britany back to her grateful parents. Shortly after, Alice made a deal with her
attorney, accusing Rodrigo of assaulting her, so he is arrested for kidnapping and assault,
while all the charges against Alice were dropped. Now Alice finally gets to be the “victim” she
always wanted to be in front of the camera. The film ends as Alice proudly watches herself on
the television, and we are shown a glimpse of her, standing over the stroller instead of Ronnie.
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