A little girl stands on the kitchen counter. She trips and falls, the power goes out in the apartment, and glass shatters everywhere. She isn't badly hurt, but she curls up in the dark and hides until the police take her away.
In some VHS copies of this film, a preview shot is featured at the beginning, showing Abby and her mom both crying in agony and screaming as they are taken away from each other.
Abby is kept at a children's center where the other foster kids bully her and tease her. They steal her stuffed teddy bear and rip it apart in front of her. Rather than putting a stop to it and punishing the bullies, the worker on duty ignores it.
The mom is harassed and talked down to by the courts, the social workers and the lawyers.
