When Riley Blevin’s son gets diagnosed with a rare disease, it changes his life, and Heidi Wallis becomes completely obsessed with trying to fix her daughter.

Scientist Bruce Hungate yearns to find someone who cares about the tiny details as much as he does, and science reporter Ari Daniel and his wife are at odds when it comes to moving their family to Lebanon, but the pandemic changes things.

At her NASA summer internship, Kirsten Siebach feels completely out of place among the Mars mission scientists, and Alison Spodek’s need to be seen as smart takes over her life.

With a new kid and her husband moving to Iowa for a job, Angie Chatman’s mental health begins to suffer, and Anna Bushlack’s romantic notions of married life with a child are broken when her husband relapses and her son is born with a cleft palate.