Jessica Nieves-Sanders is a lot of things - a New York City high school drama teacher, a loving wife to her nerdyhusband Gordon, and two weeks shy of turning forty. She's also broke, tired and hormonal as hell. Why? Becausethe one thing Jessica isn't yet, is a mother. Even with her body chock-full of expensive fertility drugs, like manywomen her age, Jessica struggles to get pregnant.After multiple failed attempts at in-vitro fertilization, Jessica and Gordon must face the facts. If they want to beparents anytime soon, they may need to explore alternative options such as using a complete stranger's eggs toconceive, a notion that Jessica likens to being cast as an understudy in a hit Broadway play about her own life.Fate, however, has a funny way of intervening, and after stepping in to defend a stranger from a group of thugs onthe street, Jessica meets Bridget Garcia, a young savvy con artist with a long list of unpaid debts and on amission to find a new pawn. The scuffle sends both women to the hospital where Bridget cunningly hones-in onJessica's desperation to be a mother. To repay Jessica for her kindness, Bridget offers a 'life-for-a-life' exchange todonate her fertile eggs for a steeply discounted price of five thousand dollars.Unbeknownst to Gordon, Jessica, eager to bond with a donor rather than selecting one off a piece of paper, strikesthe deal, but shortly after, skeletons from Bridget's past show up and kidnap the duo. Realizing she's been played fora fool Jessica quickly finds herself plunged into a dangerous and exhilarating adventure maneuvered by the criminalunderworld.Gordon sets out on an audacious goose chase to save his wife and finds himself having to hatch a plan using all his ITskills, and his failed amateur magic, to fight against the goons. The final turbulent showdown leaves everyonequestioning their own motives and how they wound up in such dire straits.