Denver resident Shelby LuFont has a successful transcription job, a budding relationship with the sandy-haired computer systems analyst next door, and is haunted by her mother's disappearance over two years earlier. Why would her mother walk away from her successful real estate practice in northern Wisconsin without a word or a goodbye to her only daughter? With no evidence of foul play and her mother keeping up with the bills from various parts of the country, the sting of abandonment sinks in deeply. Yet, Shelby isn't ready to accept the Sheriff's Department's findings that this is stacking up to be a case of someone walking away from their current lifestyle to start another which, according to the law, isn't a crime. Shelby's unsure of what to do next...until she receives the cryptic phone call.