The Quiet

"... Anything hurts less than the quiet..."

Tara is an eighteen year old girl.

She has anxiety, depression, and

Oh yeah

She's selectively mute.

"... Sometimes quiet is violent..."

When her father dies in an accident that should have killed her, too, Tara stops talking.

It's not quite a choice, but she also can't just talk when she wants to.

When a sudden whirlwind of unanswered questions blows through Tara's life, she leaves her small Florida town and goes on a road trip to every state in the country.

"... I don't know where you're going, but do you got room for one more troubled soul?..."

On the way through Georgia, she meets Alex, a girl with a heavy country accent and a need to leave everything she's ever had.

Alex send Tara's whirlwind to a hurricane as they drive through the country together.