At the age of 17, Pat knew she was in love with her one and only, Will. While growing up on the westside of Chicago, she was expecting her first child at 18. She was devastated until her and Will made it right and married. She continued to seek advice from her mentor at her church. With three children, they were able to survive anything until one day tragedy happened....

Alan James returns to Banaga in West Africa against medical advice and company policy as he is not completely recovered from a car crash in which his wife died. Keen to use work as his therapy he wonders how he will feel, taking up his expatriate life again with so many sad memories. He is settling back quite well when he meets Patty and in spite of himself gradually finds he is falling in love with her. His feelings are reciprocated, but he vows to marry only when he is completely mobile again and able to think of providing for a wife and family. The country is politically unstable and...