"Time didn't allow people to adjust. Time allowed people to forget. With each passing hour someone or something was forgotten allowing people to live their life more freely than in the past when they were burdened by memories or choices. How long would it take before Michael was forgotten? Before she was forgotten?" Faced with the sudden death of her brother, Emily Harper struggles to understand how she lost everything in the blink of an eye. She went from the perfect stereotypical family to a single child with fighting parents, and a shattered image of what once was. Forced on a road trip by her own grieving, Emily sets forth to learn just how one copes not only with loss, but living the life that follows after it.