In this bittersweet story of loving through change and changing through love, John reunites with Melissa, his University of Chicago college sweetheart and soul mate. When he impulsively proposes marriage, she agrees to discuss it, but only after corresponding with him once every month for a year. As the year unfolds, John helps Melissa to come to terms with a traumatic event of their college years while she helps him to face the web of illusions that divide him from real engagement in his family and career. With the assistance and interference of old friends Doug and Sarah, John and Melissa remain true to love and duty while changing each other's lives forever.