Plot summary

Chloe loves her job as a story producer for Racket, a Chicago-based podcast network, but she doesn’t see it as her life work. A workaholic who needs to be in control and organized in planning everything, she believes she needs a break from work to reenergize her thoughts when her boss Rick wants some new podcast ideas on his desk in two weeks in the new year. When her best friend Isabella suggests a vacation with the old crowd from college, Chloe counters that instead of a beach getaway doing nothing, they go to Iceland, spurred in her mind by a podcast guest who reminded Chloe of herself and who talked about the experience of Iceland as being transformative. In for the trip is New York based Kenneth and his wife Erin, who Chloe and Isabella only met at their wedding, but Chloe in particular doesn’t plan on asking Charlie, her college sweetheart, not only because of their past relationship, but in being a travel photographer he constantly traveling the world on assignment and probably…