Shantia can't help but to feel that those around her are making choices that seem to always end up causing her stress and pain. Her childhood friend Carmen makes one bad decision after another and after several brushes with death, she claims she changed but Shantia is skeptical. When Carmen becomes close to someone that Shantia loves, it doesn't sit well with her and when Shantia voices her opinion, it causes a rift in their friendship. A rift that may never be fixed. Capone and Shantia are no doubt in love but the mistakes that they both make test their love time and time again. They feel as if they can't breathe without each other but are they able to make things right before they end up hating each other?
Carmen travels down a dark road and it seems that she will never find happiness until an out of towner makes her acquaintance. He seems too good to be true and Carmen feels as if she is permanently holding her breath waiting on the day for him to walk out of her life just as everyone before him has. Will she finally find happiness or will the dark cloud hanging over her love life continue to brew?
