When San Francisco pet shop owner Willa Davis encounters the man who stood her up in high school, she fights both her head and her heart when she starts falling for him all over again ten years later.

When twenty-four-year-old Jae is released from prison for killing her mother, she returns to her childhood home in small-town Ridgecrest. The desire to go anywhere but there prompts her to agree to join her brother on a road trip out to Death Valley - which results in getting them hopelessly lost in the most stunning, but unforgiving topographical terrain on the planet.

少年亚当在家里总是受到虐待，当他遇见了自由奔放的流浪者艾丽丝。他和她迅速相恋了，而他也开始滑入毒品成瘾的世界，他的生活也许会变得更糟……