Travis Hagge prefers not to think of himself as a selfish coward. After all, he's a gay and gorgeous early-thirty-something with a good job and the comfortable life in Kansas City his partner's career as a doctor offers. That is, until Travis' hidden truths surface leaving him no alternative but to leave the love of his life and three best friends he affectionately calls, The Girls. Instead of running to hide in San Francisco to take a great job he told everyone he couldn't turn down, he relocates to a place closer to home where he figures no one would ever look. A conservative Kansas City suburb that time and culture avoid: Independence, Missouri. A place where, he thinks, no gay man in his right mind would ever live. Travis starts a new "reduced" life there while his partner and three best friends deal with Travis' past and how to live life without him. Until...Independence Day will give you a bird's-eye view of the day-to-day, emotionally bumped and bruised, juicy, blackmailed and uncertain lives Travis touched and left and those he becomes a part of.