Lillian Carter is eighteen, and a month out of high school, when she finds out she is pregnant. She tells her boyfriend Jarvis Davis, a college football star, and he encourages her to have an abortion. Lillian is not the type to run away from her problems, however in the face of adversity that is exactly what she does. She packs her car, tells her baby sister goodbye, and runs away from her grandmother's home without looking back. She becomes Nicolette Cotter, but doesn't realize that by running away she may have just run into her destiny...

Asia Bentley is a beautiful black single mother and a poet. After working one morning shift with Gene Ryan at Breezeway Airlines, Asia realizes that her feelings for him may be deeper than she originally thought they were. She shares her feelings with her closest friends Fallon Parks and Olivia Newton. When she reveals his race, and they don't take her seriously, she decides that their opinions are not important to her. She is approached by another coworker Craig Banton, who is also a young black poet and stands out as a more suitable match for her, but she is convinced that Gene is the...