It opens with a young girl happily coming home from school to find that her mother has been badly beaten , almost to the point of death.
Fast forward to approximately 30 years later and this same girl, (now a woman), finds out that her mother has died. She needs to inform her two sisters but first she gets hold of a private detective who has been keeping tabs on the man who beat her mother since he was released from jail.
All of the sisters return to their hometown in order to organize their mother's funeral. Through a series of flashbacks it is revealed that the sisters were also molested by the same man who hurt their mother, and they make a pact to charge the man who molested them after their mother dies.
Through the days leading up to the funeral, all three deal with the death of their mother and the molestation in different ways. The oldest, Melinda, is in denial and never admits to being abused. The middle sister, Paula, is bent on revenge and just wants to see the man charged. The youngest, Willow, has turned to alcohol and tries to just keep up with her battling sisters.
The crux of the story is showing what happens, or what can happen to a family once the abuser is removed from the situation and how it can affect them on a long term basis. Once their mother dies, Paula forces them all to try to come to terms with their pasts.
Willow meets an old friend and through his help and her sister Paula, she turns her life around.
Paula gets the revenge she was looking for, but we are left with the question of what's next.
Melinda never admits and never comes to terms with what happens and so she is stuck in the life she has created.

Walking Though Wednesday - Wednesday's child is full of woe; Thursday's child has far to go. Which sisters will "Walk Through Wednesday".