Grace and her college roommates, Liz, Tess and Lovey, document the happenings of their lives through a circle journal, but unfortunately Grace's life has become so unbearable that she has resorted to lying to them about her life. Nonetheless, Grace eventually turns to her friends when she finds out that she is dying.

Diedre McAlister, haunted by a dream in which she is playing with her sister who died years earlier, embarks on a search into her own past and family secrets when she is given a photograph by her dying mother and a challenge to find the truth.