The Richards are a normal suburban family in Philly. Dirk is the unemployed father with a drinking habit. He drinks to forget an accident that caused him to lose his job. The accident was fatal for another boy's father. Dirk feels that he is responsible for the fatherless boy and takes him under his wing, even inviting him to dinner with his family. But the boy is not as seems and becomes increasingly malevolent towards the family, forcing Dirk to make a decision that will break him.

Aria Shah is a hopeless romantic. So when a handsome stranger falls on her balcony, she's convinced this might be the start of the breathtaking love she's only read about in books. Leo Aldridge, on the other hand, is a self-proclaimed realist determined to get her head out of the clouds and into the real world. Neither one of them expected what would happen next.