Caroline finally leaves her abusive deadbeat fiancé, and a year later, she lives with her best friend- Landon, and works in a café... Sounds pretty good, right?
One night, Landon and Caroline come home to an unlocked door, and an eerily silent house. A burglary gone wrong ends up with Landon dead, and Caroline handicapped for possibly the rest of her life.
For the second time, Caroline is all alone. While going through intensive therapy, she tries- and fails, to remember the night Landon was killed. With the help of an unexpected ally, Caroline pieces together the night her life fell apart... And tries to build anew.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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