- While on a day trip up the Northern California coast, a woman who feels trapped by her own choices, meets a young traveler who presents her with an opportunity that could change the course of her life forever.
- Leigh Powell has been trapped in an unhappy, untrusting, unfulfilling marriage for the past nine years. She desperately longs for a family, a career of her own, but she doesn't trust her husband or herself and has always allowed fear to hold her back in life. From taking chances, from speaking truthfully about how she really feels, from going after the artistic life she wants. She feels stuck and doesn't know how to change her circumstances in order to move forward and live a happy life before it's too late. When Leigh and her husband Marcus get into yet another fight while spending Thanksgiving with his family, she flees to steal a day to herself and spends the afternoon peacefully driving up the coast. On her way back, she has a panic attack and has to pull over to catch her breath and calm herself down. Bryan, a young traveler who is far from home, witnesses her panic attack and engages her to make sure she's okay. Leigh is grateful for his empathy and the more they connect with one another, the more comfortable they feel to open up to each other. Leigh confides in him about her unhappy marriage and why she doesn't yet have a family, and he about feeling pressure from his own family to have all the right answers and about his need to take a solo journey to figure out what's best for his future, despite the disapproval of everyone in his life. Leigh realizes Bryan is the braver version of who she always wanted to be. Someone who doesn't live by the imaginary rules that others believe exist in life. Leigh invites Bryan to spend Thanksgiving with her family, but being the free spirit he is, he graciously declines. As they part ways, Bryan reminds Leigh of the importance of not allowing fear to stop her in life, about trusting her gut, about telling her husband the truth, and that it's not too late in life to be happy. During their brief encounter, Bryan teaches Leigh something about herself that could change her outlook forever. The question is, will she let it or will she allow fear to continue to hold her back.
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