Alex Karev has raised his daughter alone after a tragic accident. Josie has grown up thirteen years having only pictures and stories of Jo as a mother. That is, until Josie starts seeing her mom everywhere, and Josie becomes determined to find out the truth about what really happened the night she was born.

Mary Margaret and teenager Emma are in cursed Storybrooke. Neither of them remember who they are, but both are trying to get through life as normally and as best they can. It's never so easy with a teenager, though. When 14 year old Emma is ostracized at school, she turns her focus on her family and finding her father.

Emma was raised by her single, hardworking mother and lived a completely normal life. Until Emma finds out her completely normal mother is actually Snow White, and secret after secret begins to unfold.