Layla Montgomery has just moved to Lima, Ohio from South Bend, Indiana. Not much of an upgrade. Relieved she gets to start her life over, she finds a friend in school bad-boy, Noah "Puck" Puckerman, and others. She also finds her love of performing in the school's glee club, New Directions. Her glee club has never won Regionals, but will this year be different? Can she find it in her to forget her troubled past and start a new beginning in New Directions?

Paulette's life is in shambles. Her sister is dead, her mother is a drunk, and she's been forced to transfer into a chaotic public school full of bullies. Things go from bad to worse when, one night while driving them home from dinner, her intoxicated mother hits and kills a teenage boy and is sent to jail. Now Paulette is truly alone. But when the teenage boy mysteriously comes back from the dead looking for Paulette, she finds herself face to face with the purest love on earth.