This "big picture" look at life and why events occur as they do aims to open eyes and alter perceptions.

Brazen Sydney wants to fit - and assumes she does - into the tight group of college roommates. The six have stayed friends since graduation, reuniting annually and accepting Sydney for who she is, bitchiness and all, never asking her to change. Changing isn't likely to happen anyway since Sydney feels no need. She is sure she has life all figured out, and plods through it completing her best laid plans. She has the guy she wants, her career is on a great track, and by thirty is well on her way to seeing her dream of a house by the ocean come true. She has no idea she's about to enter a...

Shy Maggie loves Evan and has depended on him since they were childhood neighbors. He began as her playmate, her pseudo brother, and when they were old enough to have sex he became her Prince Charming. She wants nothing more than to marry him, and goes away to college clinging to that ideal. Even her best friends and roommates on Highland Street can't persuade her to try on anyone else. After graduating, while Evan establishes himself as an attorney, Maggie still holds hope, living a solitary life in a little apartment, at times wavering, questioning the wisdom of waiting, but when he...

Drop-dead gorgeous Wren appears to have a wonderful life. Even when her baby daughter is diagnosed as deaf, Wren and her handsome husband, Stuart, accept it without disruption. Stuart's socialite mother does not. That bossy interference aside, the picture-perfect family image they project survives until Stuart's job in a senator's camp comes into question when a worthy opponent threatens to upset the next election. Wren, familiar with the workings and having a scoop on the opponent, enlists Cat, her college roommate from Highland Street, to uncover the dirt. Little does Wren realize that, in...

Cat had never been one to hold back her adventurous and free-wheeling spirit. Coming from a bohemian liberal, strict Catholic mother and living through step-fathers and multiple resulting siblings leaves Cat in search of who she is. Answers come through frantic exploration of anything in her path, leading to a desire to save the world, and ultimately through Rocky, her seemingly strange match, who shows her the beauty of life amidst the ugly. Cat's ever evolving spiritual beliefs take on new growth after meeting him, then fail her when life does the unthinkable. Her former college roommates...

Petite and talented Sadie is a bundle of unbridled energy and optimism as she navigates college. She loves life, she loves the world for all it offers, and she loves musician Rick like he's the only guy on earth. When her dreams of a happy future with him shatter, Sadie does too. Classmate Bear, a striving country western singer, is there to pick up the pieces. Her roomies on Highland Street aren't thoroughly convinced he's the answer for the Lennon/Dylan loving Sadie, but support her when she marries him. As Bear's career soars, giving her a pampered lifestyle, Sadie struggles to find her...