Sanjana Satyanandais trying to recover her life. Its been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to resurrect her busted anthropology dissertation and crashing at her annoyingly perfect sisters while her well-adjusted peers obsess over marriages, mortgages, and motherhood. Sanjana needs to move forwardand finalize her divorce, ASAP.

Theres just one problem: Killian is missing. As Sanjana tries to track him down, shes bombarded with unnerving calls from women seeking her advice on pregnancy and fertility. Soon, Sanjana comes face to face with what her life might have been if shed chosen parenthood. And the road not taken turns out to be wilder, stranger, and more tempting than she imagined.