She felt like her little heart was beating out of her chest. Peeking through a crack in the door, 10-year-old Vanessa Hayes witnesses a horrific scene after her parent's fight. Following the altercation, a neighbor finds her mother bleeding and unconscious. And her children are nowhere to be found. 

Vex and Valor, meaning tormented and fearless, is the saga of two families from different sides of the tracks. Tim and Vee Crawford have a picture-perfect life. They're parents to four children, own a successful bakery, and are lifelong residents of a reputable housing development in Brookton, PA. Georgia and Zeke Hayes struggle to make ends meet. They move to Brookton with four of their seven children from Tennessee, landing in a cul-de-sac for the railroad personnel who travel there seeking a better life. The families are thrown together through the marriage of their two youngest children - Ella Crawford and Ben Hayes.

Now Ella is fighting for her life in critical condition, while family searches for her children. Is Ben responsible for what has happened to Ella? Many think so, while others think it was an accident. Searching for the truth, we watch the families become more entangled searching for answers. 

The Crawford and Hayes children grow into adults, each with theories on what happened to Ella that fateful day, and harboring secrets. The saga starts to unravel mounting to its climax when the truth about Ella is finally revealed.