Emily spends half a century playing the devoted, submissive wife, sacrificing her education and health for a husband whose affections were always reserved for his childhood sweetheart. Dying in bitter regret with empty hands, she wakes up abruptly in the nineteen-seventies, holding her unopened university acceptance letter on the day she originally agreed to marry.
Refusing to walk into the same cage twice, Emily rips the marriage arrangement to shreds right before her stunned fiancé's face. Choosing academic ambition and national service over unrequited romance, she commits her brilliant mind to industrial innovation, leaving her dumbfounded ex-lover in the dust.
