Stranger than your sympathy
and this is my apology
I killed myself from the inside out
and all my fears have pushed you out...

Lucas Scott and Brooke Davis were trapped in a miserable marriage. They didn't love each other, they didn't connect. He thought she was your typical boring, prim, proper society girl, and she thought he was just like every other cheating man from upper class Tree Hill. Forced together because of an important business merger for both their families, Lucas gets increasingly unhappy and divorces Brooke, announcing it to her in front of the entire town, and leaving her embarrassed and angry. Unable to handle the embarrassment, Brooke leaves Tree Hill.

It's been a whole year and nobody except for her parents have heard from her. Lucas has gone back to his partying life style, and is enjoying himself, completely having forgotten about Brooke. But when a business trip to Italy and a chance meeting leads him to her, he realizes letting her go might have been the biggest mistake of his life…