Aria Brooks is a 17-year old girl in a new town with the weight of the world on her shoulders. Dealing with the recent death of her father while struggling to befriend her new step father, nothing seems to be going her way. Aria is afraid to trust people and is angry at everyone around her. Then Aria meets Matt Lawson, who is unlike anyone she has ever met before; he immediately gets her attention and she slowly starts to let him in. Aria and Matt instantly connect, and they soon become an inseparable pair. Matt helps Aria deal with her buried emotion regarding her father's death and to slowly start to trust the people around her. When a tragic accident shakes Aria's world again, will she be able to persevere or will it close her off from the world even more?