At the zenith of her acting career, Sydney Vaughn sweeps Hollywood award ceremonies while concealing devastating news: an inoperable cranial tumor has metastasized. Abandoning red carpets and studio contracts without explanation, she drives across arid desert highways to track down Cole Bennett, her soulmate who abruptly vanished from her life seven years earlier.
Instead of an empty wilderness cabin, Sydney discovers Cole happily settled as a quiet mechanic with an affectionate spouse and a young child. Stifling her agonized confession, she rents a nearby bungalow under the sweltering sun, wrestling between selfish desires to reveal her impending death and selfless wishes to let him stay untroubled. As unresolved embers rekindle between them, Sydney must choose how to spend her final numbered sunsets.
