When Ruth fell in love at only seventeen, it was the height of the Roaring Twenties. She was convinced that he was her happily ever after. They spent endless hours and days together as he, a young pilot, performed at family farms, and she, a poor girl from the other end of town, fell deeper in love every day. He flew the plane; she performed all the stunts as a wing walker! They were a match made in heaven.

Determined to get married, the two planned to elope, only to be stopped and split apart by his family just as the Great Depression hit. Brokenhearted, Ruth was determined to live her life without love. She never forgot him, no matter how she tried.

Eventually, she married a man who longed for a wife as badly as she wanted children of her own, though the two never fell in love. It would take her granddaughter's discovery of her hidden past to reexamine her life and ponder if she will risk one last shot at happiness.