A woman and young daughter escape her abusive husband by faking their deaths. Eight years later she is happily living in the upscale Palm Springs with her now-17-year-old daughter. When her husband discovers they are still alive, he tracks them down and spies on them to learn all about the new life they've created until he can exact his revenge.
Acting
Emmanuelle Vaugier commits to two names with straight face
Production
Palm Springs mansions shot like actual characters
Director
Peter Sullivan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Peter Sullivan specializes in this exact subgenre: women-in-peril TV movies with misleading titles.
This premiered on Lifetime, where 'faking death to escape husband' is practically its own content vertical.
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