Tim Hardman was one of the best middle-distance runners in America, married to one of the best-looking women in Southern California, and with one of the best futures imaginable...until...he crashed and burned at the Olympic Trials, separated from his wife, and was diagnosed with an early onset of the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease. He lost his career, his marriage, and his short-term memory. What he did not lose was his ambition and his ability to compete. Hunkered down by himself in an old house in the Southern California high desert, using hand-written notes and a video camera as his memory, a homemade quarter-mile track as his training facility, and regular visits from his wife, who never filed the final divorce papers, as his support system, Tim is not merely attempting to return to where he once was as a runner, but to go where no runner has ever gone before...to run the fastest mile of all time. If only it were that simple....