Outrunning Cancer: One Couple's Conversation About The Journey

Andrew Plepler and his wife Tracy Curtis share how they navigated their five-year medical journey just months before he succumbed to cancer. In April of 2014, Andrew and Tracy began working on a documentary. Andrew wanted to tell his story in the hopes of inspiring others battling long-term illnesses. They started by talking to each other on camera, flushing out their story and all that they went through, with a plan to script and narrate a retelling of their journey, which would include interviews with his doctors, his family and their friends. But just four months later, Andrew relapsed, and died peacefully at home on September 11, 2025. Still wanting to tell Andrew's story, Tracy pieced it together using those recorded conversations, and complimenting them with photos and videos from their nine-year marriage and five-year battle with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. Their hope was to inspire others to keep the faith, embrace the science, continue to fight, and to find their joy. But now more of a legacy piece, Tracy hopes all those who loved Andrew will find peace in hearing him express what he was fighting for, that the fight was always worth it, and that he was truly happy and hopeful until the very end. As his Oncologist once said, "We can all learn a lot from Andrew Plepler - how to be a fighter, and how to be loved by everyone."