As a young, idealistic and impressionable seventeen-year-old, Gea became the pen pal of Bryan Jennings, a man on death row in America. 

Over a sixteen-year correspondence that covers everything but the circumstances behind his incarceration, Gea becomes emotionally attached to the sensitive, introspective man Bryan has become. 

Frustrated by her helplessness, she compiles and publishes a book of their letters in order to raise the funds needed to reopen his case and commute his sentence to life without parole. But to do so, she must learn about the crime he resolutely refuses to discuss. This brave, personal journey confronts the hideous truth of an unremittingly bleak future. It is also about coming to terms with crime and challenging a friendship to cross all barriers.