A 30-something producer named Olivia is deep into a film version of DON QUIXOTE, and things are not going well. Then her beloved sister gets cancer. As she struggles in Hollywood to get her movie off the ground, her life is punctuated by trips to the small Ohio town where her sister is dying. The movie prospers, her love life falters, her sister declines, and Olivia makes her way through it all, emerging devastated--but undeniably wiser.