Thirty-year-old John Balwin has just lost his beloved fiancee to cancer, and he decides it is time to leave New York City, the only home he has ever known. He will take a thirty-day trip across the United States to start a fresh new life in San Francisco, California, where a new job and, perhaps, a new love awaits him. The only thing left to do is to say good-bye to his beloved city, and he decides on a last visit to Central Park.

There he meets a woman who will change his life forever-seventy-two-year-old Harriet Dinsmore. He agrees to bring her along on his cross-country trek, and...