Fourteen-year-old Shannon Casto is excited to begin high school. She begins this new period of her life with an open mind and a positive outlook. But when she awakens to learn a friend is now a nemesis and a huge cloud is hanging over her life that she can't explain or shake, everything she knows begins to spiral downward. She finds another existence after her family goes to sleep filled with danger, drugs and constant thoughts of suicide until one night, when a mysterious stranger appears and changes everything.