Every Second Counts

Josh never had an easy path in life. Abandoned by his mother as a child, then evicted from his home by his father as a teen, he learned survival skills at a young age. While sleeping in his high school to avoid living on the streets, he discovers his love of swimming and uses it as his ticket out of his current situation. He joins the high school swim team, excels in his events enough to earn a college scholarship, and leaves behind his days of homelessness.

Just when Josh feels like he has been given a chance at a better life, he faces another setback with a cancer diagnosis. He battles courageously, but alone, and sets himself back a year with his studies and swimming career. Josh, however, does as he always has, he picks himself up off the ground and begins again determined to end stronger and better. As he enters his last year of college, he is sitting on the cusp of reaching his lifelong dream of making it to the Olympic trials but learns the cancer has returned. It almost killed him to beat cancer the first time around all alone, he is fearful he can’t win the battle again.

Everyone has demons they have to face in their lives and Kate is no different. She finds that making one bad decision the night after learning of her fiances' infidelity changes her life forever. She goes to a party and in an effort to forget all her pain, accepts a little white pill that turns her into an addict. It takes a lot of inner strength and perseverance on Kate’s part to not only admit she’s on a downward spiral but to seek the help she needs to climb back out of the hole she dug.

Kate finds that the hardest part of recovery is the need to surround yourself with support and positivity. Two things she is lacking in her life. The temptations and urges haunt her daily as she tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and start again. She tries to mend broken friendships, and start a new path for herself by going back to school.

Kate and Josh unexpectedly meet and form an instant friendship. They have both been fighting their own battles alone for so long, it is a welcomed change for them both to have someone to lean on in their time of need. As the friendship grows so do the feelings they each have for one another, and they both find themselves wanting more out of their relationship. Come and experience this heartwarming story of Josh and Kate as they explore what it means to make every second count.