Esther is a lady of the road, but why?She tells her story to Jess, a young nurse who cares for her after she is savagely beaten. Jess' life is interwoven with that of Esther's and she learns of the trauma caused to Esther by a tyrannical husband and how in defending herself, thinks she has killed him.Esther escapes more violence with her young child but on the way to the Women's Refuge starts to lose her unborn baby. Esther's father Tom takes her...