As a musician at the popular college cafe Coed Joe s, high school senior Kai Manter is never lacking for male attention. Out, proud, free-spirited, and sexually aware, Kai sets his sights on his darkly Gothic and undeniably bad-tempered coworker, Jamie Arlotta, a freshman at the local arts university. Sporting long hair and alluring hippie style, Kai expects his interest will be reciprocated, with satisfying sex as the end goal. That s what usually happens. But Jamie s lessons in life have been harsher. Having been sexually abused by his older stepbrother for several years, Jamie has grown an impenetrable outer shell meant to keep the world at a safe distance.
Kai is angry at first when he takes the brunt of Jamie s bad temper, but after Kai accidentally discovers the abuse Jamie has suffered, he wants to fix things. Kai s plan is based on what he knows best music and he stages a musical intervention to let Jamie know he s not alone and things can get better. When Jamie s perspective changes and he emerges from his shell, Kai changes, too, gaining a whole new understanding of what sex can be when love is there too. "