Over the course of one year a young man transitions from graduating college toward finding his way in life, while striving to find someone to accompany him on that journey. Revealed through a series of private letters and poetry, his hope is kindled by a girl who rejected him years prior, but now chooses to participate in something that grows more meaningful to each of them with every passing conversation. More introspective than what's personally beneficial, with her as the audience he begins to explore the boundaries and limitations of what can reasonably still be called friendship, or what transgresses into love. Focusing on what it means to be called to serve God (and what it is that must be sacrificed) he vainly struggles to suppress his true desire for her, knowing full well that the expression may ultimately lead to their friendship's demise. Yet that being the sort of thing so difficult to keep hidden, she elicits the confession he sincerely wants to make, and what comes to exist between them escalates into the most personal sort of war.