Would you give up your perfect life, your friends and your lover to take on an impossible challenge from which you will likely never return, just because you have this inexplicable need to do so? Dr. Rose Ross is a successful Dallas clinical psychologist, helping clients grow beyond self-imposed limitations and working with the local police department profiling killers and delivering social histories for the court. She has what friends describe as the perfect life and loving relationships. But Rose has made a commitment to leave this all behind, just not until next year. She must manage expectations, feelings and unexpected events, which nearly take her life on more than one occasion. Will she even survive until her departure date? Can she leave those she loves and who love her behind for an unknown and unknowable new life? Can she leverage her perfection and force of will into a successful bold move for mankind's very survival?