Monica Jones, a beautiful, intelligent young woman on the cusp of becoming a registered nurse in Detroit, Michigan, meets Anthony Williams, a project manager of a leading health-care provider in Cleveland, Ohio. Monica, as she is leaving her current job as a casino hostess, notices Anthony sitting outside the casino. Learning that he has come from Cleveland on a bus trip and has three or four hours before the bus leaves, she decided, after she had walked away, to walk back to tell him she does not know why she has to offer to hang out with him until his bus leaves. And this is where their story beginsone filled with love, hate, doubt, and fear along with violence that could end it all.