What would it take to get you to leave it all behind? In the summer of 2009, Alice Pleasance, mother of a fallen 9-11 police officer, makes a surprising birthday wish for a dreamy dark-eyed young man to notice her just one more time in her life. It's all in fun while she blows out the candles and returns home with her gifts including an insomnia cure from a Korean mudang. Later, Alice awakens years younger and racing to prevent her son Luke from going to the Towers only to find she has not gone back in time but has arrived in an alternate New York City canopied by a vibrant red sky. Alice's nocturnal travels quickly fill with new friendships and involvements forcing her to question where her allegiances lay. What started as an innocent time-out from tending to her husband and their surviving son is getting harder to control now that Red Sky's Hoon Park has asked her to stay. It may only take one lifetime to grow older but you may need two to grow up.