Zahra Anne Hashemi, the lovely, headstrong daughter of Persian Christian immigrants, is on her own for the first time when she enrolls at Algonquin College in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. While on campus, Zahra meets handsome and athletic Jamaican student Samson Carl Clayton, and sparks fly between them. Since they're from different ethnicities, religions and backgrounds, they're up against a hell of a lot. Still, Samson and Zahra forge a bond nobody can break. Can first love actually last forever ?