Abby Furlowe has big plans. She's going to break out of her small Texas town and make it big. But then she notices some spots on her skin. She writes them off as a rash, but things only get worse. When she falls doing a routine cheerleading stunt and slips into a coma, her mystery illness goes into overdrive and finally gets diagnosed: Hansen's Disease, aka leprosy. Some permanent damage has been done, and all of her plans suddenly come tumbling down. Then, Abby has to learn to live with something even more difficult. She's becoming aware of who she really was before and what her behaviour was doing to others...