Young pragmatic psychologist Stacey Waters has been content to lead a sheltered-if not boring-life, but it dramatically changes when she starts dating an up-and-coming rock star and begins counseling her most challenging patient yet-a paranoid schizophrenic. Just when she feels she can at last be happy, she develops a disease that stumps her doctor, and a past she thought she'd buried comes back to haunt her. As her world spirals out of control, she finds that there is more to both her patient and her boyfriend than she could have ever realized, and she must face a truth that is beyond this...