In the hours following a wedding reception, a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidentally kills a girl on a dark country road. For the next twenty-five years those involved craft their lives in response to this single tragic moment: "When you add us up, you always have to carry the one." Carry the One shows how one life affects another and how those who thrive and those who self-destruct are closer to each other than we'd expect.