While Gabby was in college in New York, she noticed her step family in Colorado Springs becoming increasingly religious. She felt less welcome each time she went home for holidays. One summer she saw physical abuse and made the impulse decision to move her mother out. With this choice, she saved her mom, but she also destroyed her family unit. Her step brothers stopped talking to her and her step father soon died.

Four years later, Gabby is living with her fiance Autumn when she receives a wedding invitation from one of her ex-step-brothers. She's surprised to find that she actually wants to attend. At the wedding in the megachurch capital of the US, Gabby and Autumn confront her trauma, both of their feelings of loss, and the shortcomings of their life without community.

What is lost when you say goodbye to family? What is gained when you can hold again that which you let go? Why do we stay, and how does it feel to know we can never return? Why do we yearn to know for certain the things that we never possibly can?