A graduate with honors from UoC Berkeley and an up-and-coming finance person in the Dot Com world of San Francisco, El sees a glorious life ahead. But when her boss/significant other dismisses outright her advice against taking the company public, he eliminates her position along with their relationship. Now at 32, El has no job, no home, no company car, and no significant other. As her world crashes around her, she learns of the death of her aunt, a radical anti-war protestor and feminist who attended Berkeley in the 60s. She was also El’s mentor and last remaining relative. El returns to her small hometown for the first time since her parent’s death 12 years before to settle the estate. While the sights are familiar, what she finds about her family is not. Each revelation is shocking but only leads to more questions and her search for answers to questions she’s struggling to define. This causes her to question not only the choices she’s made in life, but if love is reality or an only an illusion we trick ourselves into believing.

All beginnings lead to endings, but some endings bring beginnings.

Attending Harvard was the first positive thing in Jazmine's life in a long time. While a member of an affluent New York family, her mother died when she was five and her father went to jail when she was twelve. Jazmine lost everything leaving her a ward of the state and becoming a foster child.

Meeting Michael, a medical student was the second positive experience. Now she's looking forward to the perfect life she dreamed about. Leaving Boston and New York behind, the only cities she's ever known, she's on her way to join Michael and start their new life together in Wyoming where he will complete his neurosurgical residency. She's had a lot of hard blows, but now all her hard work and dedication are going to pay off. The day has arrived for her and Michael to start the beginning of their future life together. Jazmine just knows, for once, everything is going to be exactly how she always dreamed it could be.

Then she’s handed the letter.