Paralyzed and unable to speak, afraid she is a burden to her mom, Sue blinks out a message to her friend Caroline, using a code a therapist had taught her - “Please, pull the plug.” Caroline ignores her request and applies makeup to Sue’s immobile face, saying, “the nurses tell me you are going to get better.” She lies. No one knows if there is a future for the special needs advocate who lays motionless in her ICU bed. Traded in for a younger model several years earlier and seriously depressed, Sue returns to Tulsa following a divorce from her ten-year marriage. She wants to be closer to her mother, Ruth, who is dealing with a sick husband, Bill, and her brother, David, is afflicted with cerebral palsy and emotional deficiency. Sue is not in good shape, either. The thirty-two year-old needed the closeness of her mother, her lifetime confidant.

Sue gets her second chance at profession, becoming a college professor and writing several resource books for exceptional people with physical challenges. And she flourishes in her three-decade marriage to a writer, enjoying a second chance at romance..