On just about every measure, Caleb Quentin was a typical Southern California beach kid growing up in the 1980s. Board shorts, beach volleyball, and a music collection immersed in punk and modern rock shaped his life growing up in the surf and sun of Huntington Beach. When he meets Callie Crenshaw - the odd, bookish girl sitting next to him in his college English Lit class, a delicate relationship shaped by fits and starts eventually blooms into a full blown romance that leaves them inextricably intertwined for decades, yet never completely committed. Nearly 20 years after first meeting in college, the culmination of chance encounters, career upheavals, and life-altering circumstances finally brings them together for good.