Kate Hayden (Christina Raines) is a young mother who learns she has terminal cancer in her leg and
must have it removed or die. She decides she cannot live without her leg and refuses to have it removed.
As she is dying, she leaves words of wisdom for her young daughter on a cassette recorder so her daughter wont forget her. Her husband, Sam (Cliff De Young) is a struggling musician who reluctantly supports her
decision as he watches her deteriorate day by day.
When a young woman who is living in the woods with her struggling-musician husband and her very young daughter discovers that she has terminal cancer, she begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left, hoping to leave something precious for her daughter.