16 year old Dakota has cut herself off from the world ever since her dad died two months earlier. Her life is crashing in on her as the old Dakota -popular,nice,sweet,athletic- transforms. She will not speak a word to anyone or show any affection. Not even her close friends and family can reach out to her. It seems like the world has given up on her. Life takes her by the hand as she learns that happy endings don't exist the hard way.