Graduations are usually cause for celebration, but will our ultimate graduation day be so joyous? Juliet Mathews finally has the perfect family, but her youngest daughter Ellie knows it won't last. When Ellie's worst nightmare comes true, she ceases to find any meaning in life. A timely encounter threatens to give Ellie hope at her darkest hour, but will she continue to fight her chance at happiness? After being separated from her family, Juliet struggles to adjust to her new reality. She grows more desperate as she can only sit and watch, powerless to intervene as her daughter drifts away. Or has Juliet already helped more than she knows? Graduation Day chronicles this mother and daughter's quest to make sense of our often-painful world as they cope with the trauma of a family separated too soon and the mystery of what awaits us in the life beyond.