Jerry Spencer who had been a tenured professor in Indiana, leaves the university to begin a new career and is hired by Qualtek, a Chicago based Service Company, to do ISO 9001 Training and Certification for a Zambian textile firm. While in Zambia Jerry discovers a new opportunity and decides to leave Qualtek to start his own consulting business. Months later when his job with Qualtek is finished Jerry leaves the company and is ready to face the world in a new and different way as an Intendent Consultant. Back home free from Qualtek and ready to leave Chicago to relocate in Seattle, Jerry by coincidence finds out about a woman with whom he had a relationship many years before is now living in Chicago. They realize that reestablishing their relationship is now desirable, but still plagued with the same long-distance complications that made their earlier relationship impossible. To add to his complicated new start, Jerry's leaving Qualtek is not easily accepted by his former boss who now wants to sue Jerry for breach of his Non-Compete Contract.