Cat had never been one to hold back her adventurous and free-wheeling spirit. Coming from a bohemian liberal, strict Catholic mother and living through step-fathers and multiple resulting siblings leaves Cat in search of who she is. Answers come through frantic exploration of anything in her path, leading to a desire to save the world, and ultimately through Rocky, her seemingly strange match, who shows her the beauty of life amidst the ugly. Cat's ever evolving spiritual beliefs take on new growth after meeting him, then fail her when life does the unthinkable. Her former college roommates from Highland Street are at a loss for how to help her until they rely on her personality to be the key. Cat has to decide how to proceed, and blindly mixing in some detective work as a distraction is her inimitable way.