When the top blew off Daniel Asa Rose's domestic life, his lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Dan is certain that if he can locate the woman in whose arms he almost died, he will find the self he lost and make peace with his life choices since.