Lydia Wilson has always had the uncanny ability to take a situation and fantasize it into anything. Maybe it's because she's always lived in her sister's shadow. She is good at a lot of things, but her sister always seems better. She finally meets someone who has faith in her, but as her luck would have it, the relationship ends in disaster. She decides to break away from her family and everything familiar and go to New York City to start over, but that also is beginning to seem like a bad decision. She meets Sam Davis III, a New York City policeman, who seems to be everywhere, and Stephanie Gillispie, a model from Georgia. They want to befriend her, but she can't interpret the circumstances surrounding either of them. It takes a shooting for her to come to the realization the she has made the right decision after all.