Joel Murphy is a baseball player who meets the love of his life when the team bus breaks down in Delta, Colorado. By chance, or by fate, Joel meets Christine in a diner and is smitten. Later that night, he sneaks out of the motel after the team curfew and spends hours getting to know Christine, who is a beautiful and passionate girl. By sunrise, he knows she's the "one". When morning comes, he must leave with his team. Later, after a long and demanding season, Joel comes back for her and discovers that Christine has moved on. . .and married someone else. That was thirty years ago. . . Now in the present day, as Joel Murphy waits at a coffee shop in Delta to meet Christine for the fourth time in his life, and an intriguing young woman joins him to wait for her date, too. As the hour grows late, Joel begins to tell his new friend about Christine, who he has seen only three times over a period of decades. There is one important secret that he has kept from Christine, one that could tear them apart forever.