Jailbreak Lovers

Toby Young and John Maynard individually tell their joint story. Straight-laced in all aspects (boring to use her own term), Toby was at a crossroads of her life in being a recent empty nester, and having been laid off from her job, those two changes which only highlighted to her how stale her marriage to her firefighter husband Pat Young was, he the only man she had ever been with having known him since she was fifteen. She valuing a life with meaning in this crossroads was further punctuated with her father James Phalen's cancer diagnosis. John was in the only life he'd known as an adult, ten years into his life sentence for felony murder at Lansing Correctional Facility. They met as she, an animal lover, began working on a rescue dog rehabilitation program with inmates at Lansing, John her star trainer in the program. In spending time together, they fell in love and imagined a life together outside, leading to they devising a plan to break him out. While the escape plan worked, the question became whether they could overcome the inherent differences in their life together against what they knew, Toby as a fugitive versus her inherent need to do the right thing, and John in experiencing life as somewhat a free man, at least without the constraints of being an inmate.