What happens when a individual decides that life is a frame of mind? If you are a small town waitress, Betty and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe you can't be with the love of your life because he doesn't really exist. Life isn't a excuse for living. Traumatized by way of a barbarous occurrence, Betty enters into a fugue state that lets -- even supports -- her to maintain functioning... in a kind of alternative reality.