Crossroads

Dr. Hollis Monroe's work with high-risk pregnancies allows her to care deeply while maintaining a reassuring professional distance. Each patient's pregnancy has an endpoint, and she is comfortable moving on after the delivery. Annie Colfax is facing pregnancy from a very different position: alone, short of money and determined to manage despite the future she had not planned. Neither woman is looking for a romantic relationship when their lives intersect. Their growing connection challenges Hollis's preference for clearly bounded involvement and Annie's focus on simply getting through. Both must consider whether there is room for something more enduring than the temporary arrangements that have come to define their lives.