Two very different sisters, Jessica and Gerry Dean, find a strange redemption. Jessica Dean, 24 and a war hero, dies in a car crash. Her ghost and memory haunt Roland Dean, her grieving father and former cop. Jessica also leaves behind a young fiance, a clandestine May-December lover named General Douglas Lancaster, and her rebellious, drug-addicted half-sister, Gerry Dean. A fatal confrontation with gang members ultimately leads to Gerry Dean's unexpected recovery. A screenwriter named Mickey Gilmore discovers Jessica's private journal and adapts her story, seeking gold at the Emmys. Like another Dean, Jessica's story does not end in death, and her revealed legacy forces a new evaluation of a tragic family."