When unimaginable tragedy strikes Jelly Swanson has choices to make. She chooses happiness, takes the reins, provides a good, safe home for herself and her little sister, and eventually opens a successful business. She has it all together. Everything changes the day she goes to her sister's school for a parent-teacher conference with the science teacher. For the first time in years she looks at a man and wonders what it would be like to get to know him, really get to know him.