When eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman announces that she has decided to attend NYU, her overprotective mum is devastated. But while she dreams of her new life, Sydney discovers a world-changing truth about her father, who left when she was little due to a drug addiction - that he has schizophrenia and is currently living on the streets of New York City. She seizes the opportunity to get to know him, to understand who he is and learn what may lie in store for her if she, too, is diagnosed. Even as she falls for off-limits guitar prodigy Grayson, Sydney is faced with a difficult decision: Should she stay close to home, or follow the desire to take risks and discover her true self?