Julieanne Gillis's family collects them. An advice columnist
for a local newspaper, Julie dispenses wisdom to her
readers, but somehow missed the signs that something was
wrong in her own home. Devoted to being a good mother and
keeping her twenty-year marriage fresh and exciting, she is
shocked by her husband's surprise announcement that he needs
a "sabbatical" from their life together -- and devastated
when he disappears, leaving Julie with no funds to raise two
teenagers and a small daughter alone. But it is the
discovery that Julieanne suffers from a serious illness that
truly crumbles her family's foundation -- setting her
children on a dangerous, quixotic journey to locate their
missing father... before it's too late.