Redmond, a Navy Corpsman combat medic, loses his leg in Afghanistan but refuses to let his disability slow him down; while competing at the Warrior Games, he meets Krista, a firefighter working at one of the nation's busiest stations in Los Angeles.

At the age of 22, Kristin was one of the youngest known women to be diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer, which progressed to stage 4 within weeks; even in her darkest moments, her boyfriend, Luis, never left her side.

After receiving a phone call that his mother had been shot and killed in the Charleston church massacre, Chris forgives the shooter at an emotional news conference; he and his girlfriend, Mariana, now take care of his younger siblings.

At age 28, Jennifer is diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and her health begins to deteriorate shortly until she needs to be hospitalized while waiting to receive a lung transplant; through the entire process, Robert is constantly by her side.

While on deployment in Iraq, Shilo's vehicle is struck by an IED, causing him to suffer extreme burns and lose his ears, nose and several fingers; Jamie, a former school counselor, adopts two young siblings in foster care to offer them a better life.

Born and raised on Trinidad and Tobago, Kibwe grows up with very little but receives a scholarship to come to the U.S. to play basketball; he meets Joslyn in Los Angeles, and it is love at first sight.