Hope, a word with such a happy meaning. But for Hope it was just her name, nothing else. When she moves from New York to California to live with her social worker she discovers a new meaning to the word. Her life has been everything but easy and when her new teacher is an arrogant dickhead she believed it was going to be even worse. He thought she had everything a girl could want and treated her like the troublemaker she showed herself to be; on the outside. But when he finds out the truth what will he do?