The last person Zac expects to meet in the hospital room next door is a girl like Mia -- beautiful, angry and feisty, with questionable taste in music. In the real world he could never be friends with a girl like her. But when a knock on the wall leads to a note, it turns into a friendship that surprise them both. Does Mia need Zac? Does Zac need Mia? Or do they both need each other, always? Told in alternating perspectives, this is the tough and tender story of two ordinary teenagers enduring extraordinary circumstances.