Biju Viswanath directs this moving drama charting the struggles of marathon runner Richard Harteis (Bristol Pomeroy) to care for his stroke-afflicted partner, US Poet Laureate William Meredith (Alec Dana). With his efforts to nurse his ailing partner back to health curbed by both the courts and Meredith's family, Harteis quickly determines to support his lover no matter what emotional and physical hardships the pair are forced to endure.