Calling Out

Jane's relationship ends, and she walks away from her life in New York City, pointing her car west. She settles in Salt Lake City and takes a job answering phones for an escort agency that the Mormon community has given its approval, an unlikely workplace for someone starting over.

Her shifts are spent taking calls and keeping an eye on the women who work for the agency, whom she looks after almost like a mother. She also trades flirtatious banter with the men on the line. Meanwhile, Jane is searching for companionship and some sense of purpose in a city where she knows almost no one.

As the pull of mystery and risk grows stronger, the boundaries she has kept begin to dissolve. Jane moves toward a step she once would have found unthinkable and becomes an escort herself. The story follows her swings between self-doubt and confidence, unease and adrenaline, as she sinks into the lonely business of paid sex and, through her "bad" conduct, finds a new sense of who she is.