Detroit has been in a economic death spiral for decades, overlooked and abandoned. Celeste loves her home city and is fiercely faithful to it. But with her job in jeopardy, neighborhoods abandoned around her and the rise of drug related crimes, she finally contemplates moving. She falls in love with a wounded Iraq War veteran fighting his hidden addictions. When she finds the courage to follow her dreams to Hawaii, the possibility of healing comes with the arrival of the vet's recently discovered daughter.