Creed and his father live an ordinary and frankly boring life. His father is a fiction author and Creed is a senior in high school. Ever since his mother passed their lives have been monotonous. He was prescribed pills due to his "overemotional reactions" and he took them for years without much thought, he liked that when he took them he felt nothing. But one day he wakes up in a sweat and stops. Shortly after he meets a girl, and he doesn't realize how much his and his fathers lives are about to change. Every other chapter the perspective switches from the father to Creed.