Stoney comes back to America to get her personal affairs settled (visit her paent's/brother's grave, distribute and invest some of her money in various channels, and to have one *last* visit with Blair Underwood's character).

Somehow, through a bazaar twist of events, the authorities are tipped off that she is back in the States, and she gets nabbed.

She gets two options:

1)Life in prison at max. security facility
2)Infiltrate a group of women suspected to be involved in high-end drug sales and distribution ring and work as informant to help convict them.

Stoney immediately goes for the second option which seems easy enough at first, but as she gets more involved with their lives, she finds disturbing parallells between their World and the life she left behind when she lost everything. As she begins to have doubts about whose side she's really working for, police up the ante by using Elise Neal's son, and his status in the "system" as bait to keep her in line.

It is an internal struggle with indelible consequences from start to finish as Stoney must decide between preserving her life as she knows it and saving the lives, one way or another, of the girls she comes to know, all too well.

Oh, and somewhere up in there, is a steamy love scene with Mr. Underwood...though it is, once again, bitersweet.

Queen Latifah, Vivica Fox, and Elise Neal all have short cameos via flashbacks.