 Unable and unwilling to cure her pain over killing Angel, Buffy has left Sunnydale, and is now working as a waitress in Los Angeles under the alias Anne Steele. But when a young woman from Sunnydale, named Lily, (glimpsed in the  Lie To Me  episode) recognizes Buffy and asks her for help searching for her missing boyfriend, Buffy is literally drawn back into the world, and into another dimension, she thought she d escaped. Meanwhile back in Sunnydale, the Xander, Cordelia, Willow and the rest of the gang are having trouble fighting vampires without Buffy.