Sula is shy, ordinary and a misfit at the prestigious High school she attends. All she wants is to focus on her studies unnoticed and to keep her background a secret. But then she finds herself paired with the most popular boy in the school for their chemistry lessons and suddenly she is thrust into the spotlight. Ja is cocky and confident and the only son of a wealthy and overprotective mother and an absent father Told in two distinct voices this is the story of two young people from very different social backgrounds who find themselves unwittingly bound together as they navigate through their adolescent lives and the contentious issue of the school leaving dance