In the summer of 1994, months after graduating from San Francisco State University, Chava meets Stephen at a pristine, granite-lined, Sierra snowmelt pool of the Yuba River. Chava, a live-in nanny with plans to travel to Europe for adventure in six months, finds herself, instead, hospitalized with double-pneumonia and a collapsed lung. Stephen is by her side as she awakens from the thoracic surgery that saves her life. The couple emerges without question...