Based in 2004 in New York City, Manhattan, seventeen-year-old Aaron Felix begins his first day of high school at Martin High, his ninth high school in seven years. His family is crumbling apart, and he is bullied at high school because of his brains and because his father pressures him to do well. He becomes friends with a disabled girl, Freak, and a closeted gay, Adam. They change his life, and they go through changes and drama together.